Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 29 October 2007 14:40 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 29 October 2007 10:23 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> ____/ Kier on Sunday 28 October 2007 01:15 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:16:06 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ____/ 7 on Saturday 27 October 2007 22:21 : \____
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Found this on uk.comp.os.linux
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 'The first time the BBC has included Linux in its Polls - don't waste
>>>>>>>> your vote!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It took some protest for them to even include a Linux option. Perhaps
>>>>>>> the MSBBC tries to pretend it does not exist.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or maybe the 'MSBBC' doesn't exist. Stop being so stupid, Roy. The BBC
>>>>>> knows quite well that Linux exists, and has reported on it many times.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, Linux has reported the MSBBC... to the European Commission.
>>>>> There is first-class corruption going on there. It is a misuse of the
>>>>> system and it must be stopped ASAP. Money continues to be funnelled to
>>>>> criminals (yes, it's a crime).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll talk to Mark Taylor on Wednesday about whether we can investigate
>>>> how the BBC did their ITT. If they didn't go to tender, they have
>>>> almost certainly broken EU law, and risk enormous fines at least, and
>>>> perhaps more.
>>>
>>> The BBC is aware of this. At the moment, the BBC execs makes promises and
>>> pray they can run away.
>>>
>>
>> All the more reason to keep asking the questions, then. There
>> absolutely should have been a tender for this - so lets see a nice big
>> juicy fine, *or*, since this is public money (like mine, yours, kier's,
>> homer's and so on), then how about seeing some people sacked. I'm sure
>> that they could go back to work for Microsoft.
>
> Ashley Highfield has just done an audio interview (BBC blogs, IIRC). Quite
> defensive. DRM, iPlayer, the whole mess... and the spin (remember it's the
> MSBBC that had him interviewed, so he had a powwow, he wasn't 'grilled').
>
He'll need to be a lot more defensive about this; Windows Media Player
is a monopoly tool (EU), orgs with significant market power have to
go to tender for works more than about 100,000. The "iPlayer" falls
entirely into both categories.
Someone broke the law.
--
| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
| Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ |
| Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ |
| My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |
|
|
