Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 30 July 2007 08:43 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ John Locke on Sunday 29 July 2007 19:21 : \____
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:23:32 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>____/ ed on Sunday 29 July 2007 18:16 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:59:41 -0700
>>>>>> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:46:43 +0100, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> >Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> >> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 29 July 2007 12:13 : \____
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >The decision to waste licence-payer's money paying Microsoft to
>>>>>>> >develop code which could very easily have been done by capable local
>>>>>>> >or foreign people in a platform agnostic way is one for which heads
>>>>>>> >should role. I'm assuming that Ashley Highfield is at the centre of
>>>>>>> >this, but it also appears that the BBC Trust should be dissolved,
>>>>>>> >and that Alistair Faquarson also should be removed from the National
>>>>>>> >Archives, as he is clearly not pro-open-standards, which is not a
>>>>>>> >position an archivist should even /contemplate/ taking.
>>>>>>> I've decided to ignore all of this TV web crap. Besides, I have my
>>>>>>> Fawlty Towers, Black Adder and Red Dwarf DVDs. Now there was some
>>>>>>> REAL TV programming back when the BBC had great heart.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You probably shouldn't ignore this topic. The beeb are planing on some
>>>>>> drastic changes, such as phasing out the TV licence and introducing a
>>>>>> computer licence. This came from their studies of the number of people
>>>>>> who watched the Olympic games via the web.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who knows... maybe they will phase out terrestrial TV with web tv in
>>>>>> our lifetimes, with News 24 moving to the web before other programmes.
>>>>>
>>>>>True, and that's why it's such a big deal. They might also have plans to
>>>>>make their Web site .NET-only. The BBC's technical department is Microsoft
>>>>>Corp. You are paying Microsoft via your taxes, which is unacceptable.
>>>>>There's a similar trend in American TV channels too. Stop it now before it
>>>>>gets too messy. That's what the Defective by Design campaigns is all about.
>>>>>We have been successful on the audio front (to some extent), but Hollywood
>>>>>is harder to defeat. They look at the anti-DRM folks as though they are
>>>>>mob, rebels.
>>>> You guys are are right on this. If I remember right, TV licensing was going
>>>> to attempt to fine people for watching the Wold Cup over broadband if they
>>>> didn't have a TV license.
>>>
>>> On Friday I contacted the FSF and spoke to some others who organise the
>>> events, but an event in Manchester seems unlikely. This might be about the
>>> future of TV in the UK (ITV are in the same s**t as well, but it's privately
>>> own).
>>>
>>
>> It's impossible to recognise just how dangerous Microsoft are. Recently
>> someone compared them with terrorists, but that was unfair, terrorists
>> are very poor at presenting themselves with a positive image; Microsoft
>> are able to do the most dreadful things, and yet can afford to pay for
>> huge number of people to create for them a very positive image indeed
>> whilst they are doing it.
>
> Microsoft (and the BBC) will probably be served with some antitrust documents
> over this whole fiasco. My COLA postings are proving useful here because I am
> able to gather and supply evidence to build the case.
>
They build up a good historical picture, and ensure that these issues
are considered in context, rather than out of context, which is what
perpetrators of such things always prefer.
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