__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Saturday 17 February 2007 12:28 \__
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 17 February 2007 10:09 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Save the BBC from Windows DRM!
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Clearly, shutting out 25% of your audience sits ill with the BBC's
>>>| remit of serving all of its users...
>>>|
>>>| There is no denying that this is an extremely difficult area for
>>>| the BBC, since it must negotiate not one but three minefields -
>>>| those of technology standards, copyright and contract law. But
>>>| there are still things that it could do without turning into a
>>>| global advertisement for Microsoft's flawed DRM approach.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000183
>>>
>>
>> It's about time this were covered on one of the serious science
>> programmes, say, or perhaps the moral maze, say? Even a short piece on
>> the today programme would be a good start.
>>
>> This issue is hugely important, and yet the discussion appears to be
>> confined to a few relatively obscure net sites and groups... not good
>> enough, BBC!
>
> The media hasn't guts. It has budgets and funding sources.
>
> What happened to the guts?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
> | mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
> | the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
> | You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
> | issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
> | more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
> | editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
> | since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
> | from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
> | become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
> | 95 like it was the second coming.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
> | advocate for the consumer once again.
> |
> | As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
> | most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
> | But we're the little guys.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
>
>
> Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
>
> $350 million to MediaNews
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
> | those involved in the deal didn'teven know he was one of the investors.
> | It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
> | philanthropy outfit.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
>
> Also relevant:
>
> http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
Oh, dear. Now they /think/ alike.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6369055.stm
BBC urged to resist website ads
"Overseas users would see adverts when they visited BBC websites
A group representing UK media companies has called on the BBC Trust not to
allow adverts to be published on its international websites."
What on earth is happening to the BBC? I'm just glad that I gave away my TV a
long time ago, so I no longer need to pay TV licence.
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