Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux"

An anonymous reader writes "The Council of the EU has a streaming service so that we can watch its meetings — but the service can only be accessed by Mac or MS Windows users. This is because they employ WMV format for the videos. In the FAQ they express a really strange opinion about this: 'The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So the answer is: No support for Linux.' An online petition has been set up to create pressure to convince the EU council to change its service to one that is platform independent."

Comments

TO: streaming dothelpline at consilium europa eu

[sick_soul]

MAIL TO: streaming dothelpline at consilium europa eu

I'd like to suggest a fix for your FAQ page:

> The live streaming media service of the Council of the European Union can be viewed on
> Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. We cannot support Linux in a legal way. So
> the answer is: No support for Linux.

I would reword the second-last sentence like this:

"We are too ignorant or too lazy to support GNU/Linux."

The rest seems fine.
Thanks,

--signed--

Re:Will not stand in the EU

[hackus]

I have to agree.

The audacity for a government to dictate to its citizens that unless you buy a product at X dollars, you cannot communicate with us is a obvious setup by Microsoft or its vast lobbyists.

There is just so many obvious free formats to use to do this, I refuse to accept that this was an accident, and wasn't a obvious coercion of some sort.

Secondly, you have to be a real ethically corrupt die hard EU Union rep not to see the ethics problems with this.

In the USA this is business as usual. For you Europeans...perhaps you are starting to learn that as a satellite of the USA Empire, you do what you are told. :-)

-Hack