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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."

Comments

Bah. Ogg streaming?

[penguinstorm]

Yes, it's nice to see Open Source Software being used -- not becuase it's free and I don't want my tax dollars going to waste, but because it does the job better.

But seriously...Windows Media for streaming? That's not open. It doesn't even work well.

And Ogg as the only alternative, in limited numbers?

Gimme a break. Give us a platform independent technology neutral streaming solution. MP3 would even be fine -- it might not be the best solution, but it is the lingua franca of the encoded music world at the moment.