____/ Mark Kent on Friday 09 November 2007 17:15 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Confused BBC tech chief: Only 600 Linux users visit our website
>>
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>>| Ooops. Highfield goes on to say that these users should be seen in the
>>| context of the vast majority, who run Windows.
>> `----
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>>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/
>>
>> Not only did he essentially take money from people who are forced to pay and
>> passed it to an abusive monopoly; he also spreads lies about Linux, using
>> that very same money. A source tells me that this man may finally prove
>> that "nobody gets fired for choosing Microsoft" is a thing of the past.
>> Hopefully he'll get sacked soon, but the money he funneled to crooks in
>> Redmond won't be back. What a fiasco!
>>
>
> As I mentioned in the Digest, his behaviour is completely
> unprofessional, totally unsuitable for someone working for a public
> corporation. He really needs to be replaced with someone who actually
> understands both technology and public service; in fact, someone who
> understood just one would be better!
>
> He should not be passing £100s of millions of licence-fee money to a
> foreign company in return for distributing their software - this is
> quite absurd. Probably someone should be jailed for what's been going
> on there.
Well, it's probably like the Steve Jobs financial corruption case. The whole
group (aka 'good old boyz club'), in this case Microsoft and the BBC, would
jump to his rescue. The government are rarely more powerful than corporations.
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