__/ [ 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?
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| 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.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| 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.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
Also relevant:
http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
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