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BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users

Posted by timothy on from the gnu-linux dept.

eldavojohn writes "The BBC is planning to release some of its programmes to users of GNU & Linux. You won't see Doctor Who or Dragons' Den on there anytime soon, but they have been working with Canonical & Collabora on getting this out there for Totem users. The developer blog mentions that the sheer number of options in the open source world actually makes this difficult to accomplish."

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  1. Re:I hope they made the freedom choice. by osu-neko · · Score: 3, Interesting

    TFA said that other distros will be worked on. They chose to start with Ubuntu as it appears to be the most popular desktop(Joe user) distro.

    Joe the User supports Microsoft, even though his current computer and the computer he's thinking of buying would benefit more from Ubuntu. :p

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  2. Re:amazing! by JohnBailey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i didn't even know that brits had computers yet. it's fantastic news.

    Yep.. After inventing them, they kinda lost interest..

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