Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> The BBC could conveniently hire /local/ programmers as they did in
> the past to build a framework for delivery of content (there's
> information on their Web site and there's skill to take pride in if
> you look at history).
Yes, in fact the Beeb used to have a thriving FOSS development strategy,
producing such things as the Dirac codec, before Ballmer's goons arrived
on the scene to pervert the BBC into a Microsoft franchise.
Indeed, the Beeb already /had/ a media delivery framework based on
RealNetworks technology, which will presumably be phased out to make way
for Microsoft's expensive and insecure Slopware.
This "investment" was nothing but a criminal waste of taxpayers' money.
--
K.
http://slated.org
.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
16:26:36 up 76 days, 15:21, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.20, 0.16
|
|
