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The BBC has at long last announced it is adding Linux support to the forthcoming TV over the Internet iPlayer service.

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iPlayer is non-free. What if we

iPlayer is non-free. What if we want to use the Syllable system? The KolibriOS system? The Hurd system? If we had access to the source AND sharing AND improvement rights to it, then we would be able to support ourselves. We would be able to get it to run wherever we want it to run and we will be able to share our improvements with others. Since it is non-free, we are completely dependant upon the owners, Adobe, Microsoft and BBC.

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16 years 50 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago

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Agreed, although it is a start.

Agreed, although it is a start.
Isn't there an open source project Gnash - which aims to function as flash?

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16 years 50 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago

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Uh? I wasn't aware that iPlayer

Uh? I wasn't aware that iPlayer depended upon flash. It seems that iPlayer will use flash. Even so, iPlayer is still not free software.

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