Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il

[Nadav Har'El]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010, Ariel Biener wrote about "Re: Playing TAU lectures from videos.tau.ac.il":
> I've been at TAU for 15 years, and I know exactly what we can
> or cannot do. We take every helpdesk call seriously. We can't always
> fix stuff, due to various reasons, and not all of them are technical.
> 
> We are doing all we can, as far as our budget allows us to, in order to
> make our content and services available to all, regardless of their
> platform, be it Windows, Unix or Mac. Some of our services are provided
> based on outside software (like Virtual TAU for example). Services provided
> by code we write are always portable, since they are designed from the 
> ground
> up to be so.

Can we please stop this thread? The sort of apologetics I read on this thread
might be suited to discussion of religious dogma, but not Linux.

Ariel, to an outsider like me, what you're saying sounds like: TAU is making
every effort to support Linux users, but for some applications there was a
political/financial reason to NOT support them, and in those cases Linux users
are kindly requested to keep quiet, and not try to find workarounds for these
applications to work on Linux. To prevent Linux users from looking for such
workarounds, such workarounds are branded illegal or immoral (I have to admit
I couldn't even follow the reasoning why).

Please keep these sort of arguments on internal TAU mailing lists, and
let people who actually want technical advice (how to view certain kinds
of videos on Linux) get it here.

> As for what was said, if someone doesn't check if things change, he wont
> know that they did. Being stuck in your own perceptions doesn't really 
> allow one
> to grow.

It sounds like everyone claimed that for the application at hand (video
viewing) nothing changed and it still doesn't work on Linux. You didn't claim
it changed (i.e., works on Linux) either. So I don't understand your argument.

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