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Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Fiddling with my blog post: Op”¦ (2007)

Fiddling with my blog post: Open letter to Adobe ( http://mattl.co.uk/blog/?p=504 )

Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Silverlight - proprietary codecs (2007)

Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Silverlight.Microsoft will make the codecs for video and audio available to users of Moonlight from their web site. The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser (sorry, those are the rules for the Media codecs[1]).My questions… 1. How is this a good thing? Introducing proprietary software into the free software desktop… 2. What license will this be released under?And yet, I bet dozens of pe