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Microsoft Celebrates Feynman 50-year Anniversary

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the over-your-head dept.

Julie188 writes "A couple of years ago Microsoft acquired the rights to the famed filmed lecture series by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and posted them online for all to see via its Project Tuva site. As part of the 50-year anniversary of the lectures, the Project Tuva site now includes commentary from MIT physics professor Robert Jaffe. Project Tuva still requires Silverlight (alas, not HTML5), but does offer some nifty features for the aspiring physics student, such as search and the ability to take notes."

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  1. Re:Because it's Silverlight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a shame no one will get to see it...

    I was bummed to discover that Microsoft owns the rights to the Feynman lectures. Available in Silverlight only just rubs salt in the wound.

    Exactly. Feynman loved to teach and he loved to educate. He would not appreciate people holding his teaching behinds artificial barriers. What a shame. I'd sad to see Feynman's legacy "owned" by people who are so inferior-minded and unimportant compared to him.

  2. Re:Because it's Silverlight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what else was a free download? IE6.

    That's it then; the thread has been Godwindowed.

  3. Re:Because it's Silverlight... by Covalent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Silverlight != FOSS Therefore, this awesome piece of the legacy of Richard Feynman is currently != free. Furthermore, what is to prevent MS from making this no longer "free"? Nothing. The real tragedy, though, is that 50-year-old video of a man who is long dead is still covered by copyright.

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