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Canada's CBC - Powered By OSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-makes-sense dept.

Otter Escaping North writes "Blake Crosby's Under the Hood column on CBC's website recently discussed how almost the entire site is powered by open source software. It's great to see a government-funded agency making frugal technology decisions, and even better to see them trumpeting the benefits of doing so."

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  1. Now for the media content by bignickel · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a Canadian taxpayer I'm thrilled to see so much OSS in use at the CBC. Now they just need to focus on non-proprietary file formats for their content (Windows Media is still king - at least for my regional radio). However, Ogg is an option for the national radio broadcast, and the always excellent Radio 3 Podcast. Now, we only need to get rid of Freestyle...

  2. The fact that the CBC uses OSS..... by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...... Likely has more to do with their lack of funding:

    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.h tml?id=b07beeab-4ad7-4fba-a2d7-f223bc16cd70&k=5921 2

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  3. Re:Bah. Ogg streaming? by xa0s · · Score: 2, Informative

    bah.. streaming is SOOooo 20th century. Podcasts baby! (in AAC)

    http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/

    No Windows Media required