Regarding "proprietary software"

[Josh Baugher]

(The AA responses will hopefully be done tonight -- this is just a
"quickie post" -- those AA messages are getting _long_! :-) )

* Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org>: 

> I believe this NPR story discusses the issue:
>
>   <URL:http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=37200>
>
> I can't be sure because I don't use Real Audio because it's
> proprietary software; [...]

.cfm

The extention on the URL indicates that the website is running
proprietary software: Cold Fusion. Are you using proprietary software
when you use their website, or since the code is actually running on
their server is it not considered proprietary?

Of course, you are only being sent static files -- nothing proprietary
about those, right?

>  (I really wish NPR had full transcripts available. They have
>  them (I know you can order them), so why don't they make them
>  available?)

You would think that they would be willing to provide these (at the
very least) for the hearing impaired.

                                              Josh

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Josh Baugher <jbaugher@vt.edu>
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