Tim Dobson's Blog

For a long time getting people to use free software specifically, to move to a all free software desktop has been tricky.
Many people have been extremley unwilling to not have Adobe Flash installed on the machine they are using.
This software is of course proprietary software however many people feel that their daily dose of Youtube could not exist without it.

Since the whole BBC DRM fiasco exploded, I was pleased to see Andy Halsall post an email to the bbc-backstage mailing list which raising some very good points.
http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg07774.html
It is unfortunate, that this is so comprehensive that there was little comment on it. I agree with everything on it, such the the point I have nothing to add.
I was therefore quite sad by the lack of response.