CNN does not support open-source.

[Danny Piccirillo]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Susan,
>
> Could you invite them to a meeting and see if they would be interested
> in learning something about what Free and Open Source Software is?
>
> It's a travesty that people in the media could be this blind and
> misinformed.
>

Oh right, because it's not like they're like that about everything....

Regards, Martin
>
> 2008/10/3 David Tresner-Kirsch <dwkirsch at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Susan,
> >
> > Clearly CNN's tech team could use a better understanding of what
> open-source is.
> >
> > For future reference though, it's possible to watch CNN live by
> > loading the following stream url into a media player:
> > http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >> Here's their note to me, after I tried to access CNN-live.
> >>
> >> -----Forwarded Message-----
> >>>From: VCMTech4 at turner.com
> >>>Sent: Oct 3, 2008 12:13 PM
> >>>To: susancragin at earthlink.net
> >>>Subject: TTS Helpdesk Ticket: 2159693
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Susan,
> >>>
> >>>We do not support Live Video for Ubuntu.  Linux is open source, thus
> causing a lot of problems when trying to implement a windows based
> application.  We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>Kyle
> >>>CNN.com Tech Support
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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