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Story: Anger as EU ignores open-source video

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The council's site seems to intentionally lead the discussion...

The council's site seems to intentionally lead the discussion into a debate about operating systems, which is an easy way to completely distract the public from the issue at hand which is one of open standards and data formats.

In other words if the council had been using regular standards for the streaming, then the issue of which platforms are supported and which are not would not be necessary: use of open standards would ensure that *all* platforms can access the streaming video.

The same goes for the issue of the web site. If the council had been using W3C standards like XHTML and CSS, then *all* browsers would be supported.

Instead, the council seems to have gone out of its way and expended extra effort and cost to exclude part of its citizenry. That smells more of politics than technology.

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