Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux"

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 31, 2006 @01:30PM from the penguins-need-not-apply dept.

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."

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The Cost of Government by LifesABeach · 2006-12-31 13:43 · Score: 0, Troll

In considering the cost of telling everyone what the EU is going to do, and not do; Maybe it would have been cheaper to just find a common ground for Linux, OS2, and that other high priced solution that is associated with 'Wild Tangent'.