After takin' a swig o' grog, ed belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:46:43 +0100, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> >
>> >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.
And you brits tell us that America is losing its freedom!
And -- get this -- Microsoft, IIRC, is working on video distribution
services in Europe.
Those darn public airwaves! You just can't control 'em! Anybody can
watch 'em! Without paying per view! They're taking food off our
plates!
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Tux rox!
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