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.
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