Thanks, Raven. I appreciate the response.

It remains a bit worrisome for a a couple of reasons:

Reason 1 is that that you are analysts who concentrate on open source software, which the Webcasting facility of chose is inherently incompatible with.

Reason 2 is that you host a very important disucssion about Free software (GPL) while at the same time shutting out those who probably care the most and are also affected the most.

I can envision more of these faces and voices that say that open source is not ready because “you can’t do Web stuff” and I continue to worry whenever I see ‘us’ doing this to ourselves. This isn’t an isolated incidents, so I chose to speak out. I saw an almost identical story about 10 days ago. I won’t name the company or the person involved.

Please understand that I am not against proprietary software. I use Flash and I used to be using MATLAB when I programmed more frequently. I do, however, use GNU/Linux on all my PCs and situations such as this make it unnecessarily more cumbersome.

Let us set an example by ensuring that we don’t ‘pull an iPlayer’ on our peers. Sam Varghese wrote a good article about this topic when ZDNet released videos of Linus Torvalds speaking. They used Flash (version 8+ required) before Adobe made version 9 available for GNU/Linux (there was never a version 8). Essentially, Linux users were not able to very the founder of Linux. This is more serious than failing to provide something like Ogg for Richard Stallman or Eben Moglen to view their /own/ interviews because in this latter case it’s a matter of philosophy, not just practicality (technical limitations).

I don’t mean to sound harsh and I sincerely apologise in advance.

Thanks for the wonderful analysis that you do.