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Stephen Downes

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My experience with multimedia on Linux has been pretty poor, so I am sympathetic with the comment that prompted this post. I will look at some of the resources listed here for vide on Linux - but without a lot of hope. Right now, I can't even play video in my browser, much less create or edit it on the Linux system (and don't get me going about the work involved installing plugins for Firefox on Linux, or making wireless work (like this open content comic, which is probably good, but simply crashes my browser on Linux) - I have just about had my limit with this)). Why can't we get a middle ground: software that works, without proprietary formats, DRM, and other associated nonsense? Software, in other words, built for people, rather than vendors. Isn't there a great big business opportunity there?

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