On Jul 27, 1:27 pm, 7 <website_has_em...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >http://labs.live.com/photosynth/BBC/default.htm
>
> > Need ActiveX, IE, Windows...
>
> > Taxpayers cover this. It was originally a Linux application, but Microsoft
> > bought the company and made it Windows-only.
>
> This is terrible!!!
> The BBC is publicly funded by license fee and they have a duty
> to spend that license fee for the benefit of the public!!!
> They should be spending all that money on open source
> sub-contracting based on companies that rely on home
> grown technology companies instead of letting a few individuals hold
> key positions to hand out money to Micoshaft Corporation and
> their partner companies. There was even a big stink about
> BBC hiring contractors instead of permanent employees.
> Paying for proprietory solutions is infinitely worse
> than paying for open source software and having a management
> review to force the company to use Open Source everywhere to
> a) save license payer's money
> b) return value for money
> c) return all money spent on software as open source to the
> benefit of the tax payer instead of a few private contractor
> companies.
>
> This is a big politically unacceptable stink up by the BBC and their
> inappropriate use of License Fees.
>
> I think its time some of the board and management that lets
> this situation arise to go and be replaced by pro-open source
> management seeking value for money for the community money
> that is being taken out of public to pay private corporations
> and redress the balance.
This is precisely why the BBC license/licence fee has now turned
criminal racketeering. Using the taxpayers' money to create a virtual
BBC-M$ monopoly in the UK is a criminal misuse of the BBC license/
licence funds. Unfortunately, the license/licence fee will never be
abolished because every single "elite" politician in the UK are
clearly bought off by the BBC, and any attempt to go against the BBC
would be political suicide.
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