Quite frankly, I don't give one nickle for Intel's point of view. Why would it matter what Intel thinks or wants in this case? The only thing that matters is the interest of the developing countries and their population.
@ Elrous0: can you be any more blind? This is a charity project, not some walmart shelfspace battle! FFS what are you even bringing the word hippie in here? Stop being so frikkin' closed minded. How does it even matter that windows is widely supported? Giving those poor people windows means they have food for a day, giving them open source means you learn them how to fish. Giving them windows means you have ZERO control over pricing in the future. In five years they'll need to renew software/renew hardware. Compare having to upgrade this: 1) open source software that's free for the public to use 2) closed source software that cost the equivalent of 3 months wage at best in Africa. Compare having to choose for the hardware upgrade between either 1) a charity organisation under control of independent respected organisations 2) a profit-oriented uncontrolable company.
If you've chosen option two twice you're nuts, or a fanatic (or both). Oh btw, the OLPC makes the SOURCE CODE available, to be looked at, studied, tweaked, improved, adjusted, whatever-you-want-to-do-with-it. It's like giving out a complete blueprint and having the option to study it inside-out. The windows version has.... none of this.
Sure you can disregard every rational valid point I made here, and argue that Negroponte 's the most sellfish person on the earth who starts a huge difficult & noble project in a very open way , this offcourse only for his own satisfaction, so powerdrunk he is (sigh)... but than again isn't the earth also flat where you live?
I advise everyone with the same problem as me to do the same.
"Hi,
I have been trying to get your stream to play on my system. I must advise you that I'm an ICT professional and yes I know how to play a stream. The problem is, I am using linux. I have looked everywhere on your site to make your stream play. The link for media player 10 doesn't work. Offcourse it does display information, like that I should buy a microsoft windows license? Since the EU council is a public organisation and it's their duty to not discriminate people (taxpayers included) I reckon the EU is going to buy me a windows license so I can watch the stream? If not this is one hell of a technical problem.
I advise you to stop discriminating your inhabitants. The EU council does not have the right to force windows upon their inhabitants. If microsoft doesn't bring out a codec for open source systems (like linux or bsd) to play than the EU council will have to abandon microsoft as their supplier.
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Quite frankly, I don't give one nickle for Intel's point of view. Why would it matter what Intel thinks or wants in this case? The only thing that matters is the interest of the developing countries and their population.
@ Elrous0: can you be any more blind? This is a charity project, not some walmart shelfspace battle! FFS what are you even bringing the word hippie in here? Stop being so frikkin' closed minded. How does it even matter that windows is widely supported? Giving those poor people windows means they have food for a day, giving them open source means you learn them how to fish. Giving them windows means you have ZERO control over pricing in the future. In five years they'll need to renew software/renew hardware. Compare having to upgrade this: 1) open source software that's free for the public to use 2) closed source software that cost the equivalent of 3 months wage at best in Africa. Compare having to choose for the hardware upgrade between either 1) a charity organisation under control of independent respected organisations 2) a profit-oriented uncontrolable company.
If you've chosen option two twice you're nuts, or a fanatic (or both). Oh btw, the OLPC makes the SOURCE CODE available, to be looked at, studied, tweaked, improved, adjusted, whatever-you-want-to-do-with-it. It's like giving out a complete blueprint and having the option to study it inside-out. The windows version has.... none of this.
Sure you can disregard every rational valid point I made here, and argue that Negroponte 's the most sellfish person on the earth who starts a huge difficult & noble project in a very open way , this offcourse only for his own satisfaction, so powerdrunk he is (sigh)... but than again isn't the earth also flat where you live?
I have written a letter to the technical support on the EU council page:
http://ceuweb.belbone.be/contact.php?lang=EN
I advise everyone with the same problem as me to do the same.
"Hi,
I have been trying to get your stream to play on my system. I must advise you that I'm an ICT professional and yes I know how to play a stream. The problem is, I am using linux. I have looked everywhere on your site to make your stream play. The link for media player 10 doesn't work. Offcourse it does display information, like that I should buy a microsoft windows license? Since the EU council is a public organisation and it's their duty to not discriminate people (taxpayers included) I reckon the EU is going to buy me a windows license so I can watch the stream? If not this is one hell of a technical problem.
I advise you to stop discriminating your inhabitants. The EU council does not have the right to force windows upon their inhabitants. If microsoft doesn't bring out a codec for open source systems (like linux or bsd) to play than the EU council will have to abandon microsoft as their supplier.
After all, it is our tax money.
Kind regards and hoping for a solution soon,
Sjaaksken"