____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 08:06 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 19 July 2007 14:47 : \____
>>
>>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Mark Kent belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft, having declared standards as "dead" on the launch of Windows
>>>>> 3.11 or Win95 (can't recall which one), now seem to regard standards
>>>>> bodies as just something they can manipulate as they see fit to suit
>>>>> their present commercial requirements, irrespective of the interests of
>>>>> any other parties. This is clearly not an acceptable state of affairs.
>>>>
>>>> Check out the text pointing to just before 1999 in this graphic:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/images/timeline.png
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's a really well put together picture - I'm impressed. How about
>>> someone sends it to Ashley Highfield at the BBC, and Mr Faruhar at the
>>> National Archives, these being the people who wish to lock us to
>>> Microsoft, at *our* expense, forever.
>>
>> Could this be another thing for the OSC to look at (other than iPlayer and
>> maybe SilverLockin.NET in the futute)? Who can one address other than cousin
>> Neelie at the EC?
>>
>
> I don't know. The time is right for a really good push on the BBC,
> though. Clearly, the Board of Trustees is a terrible idea, not working
> remotely well, whereas the previous management method worked rather
> well. I'm beginning to realise that the board is trying to run the BBC
> more like a business, so they've brought in a bunch of dinosaurs to try
> to copy what businesses were doing a decade or more ago, hence all the
> outsourcing, strategic partnerships, and so on. It's a mix of a
> disaster and a joke, but it's most certainly *our* money, so we should
> shout long and loud about fixing this.
...couldn't have explained it better. It crossed my mind before. The BBC
operates truly like a business and where it is not allowed to behave like a
business, it uses contracts with external forces to do the business, which
aligns with agendas of these external resource and enjoys cashflow that is
taxpayers' money. Thus, as long as the /public/ (not the BBC) is unaware of
its money being miused, it's just a big party with 50-quid notes flying up in
the air. Good ol' boyz club.
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