____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 13:21 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Tux Droid delivers a very Merry Linuxmas
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Although it could be argued that your average fanboy has already got the
>>| present they wanted this xmas in the continuing growth of Linux in terms of
>>| both actual deployment and media popularity, or maybe the arrival of the
>>| Linux server for Unreal Tournament 3 or even the fact that the BBC iPlayer
>>| is now Linux compatible. But no, believe me, when they see the dancing
>>| plastic penguin that announces the arrival of new email all that will
>>| change.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1904.html
>>
>
> The BBC iPlayer is *not* linux compatible and it never will be. It is
> the Microsoft Silverlight player, and will only ever run on Windows.
> The BBC paid hundreds of millions of our licence-fee cash in order to
> put a skin on the Silverlight player.
Yet the above shows you how many people they fooled with their PR charade. I
keep insisting that Linux and Mac are not supported (Flash is a second-class
compromise) and a lot of money is dead (inside the belly of a convicted
criminal).
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