____/ 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.
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