____/ Sophie McDowell on Wednesday 24 October 2007 13:30 : \____
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4342489.HVDD0nQCir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 24 October 2007 09:23 : \____
>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:19:10 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> Interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium, by
>>>>> Sean Daly
>>>> [...]
>>>>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071021231933899
>>>>
>>>> Not only has MS annexed the Beeb, but they've contributed to it's
>>>> virtual destruction (lay-offs, cutbacks, relocation). Microsoft is a
>>>
>>> Do you have *any* proof of thatr nonsense?
>>
>> Cause (mind the highlight):
>>
>> Anti-DRM Protesters call on the BBC to eliminate DRM from the iPlayer
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | London and Manchester, England - Two weeks after the BBC officially
>> launched
>> | the iPlayer, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits gathered
>> outside
>> | BBC Television Center in London and BBC headquarters in Manchester to
>> demand
>> | that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) be eliminated from the BBC.
>> |
>> | The BBC have developed the "iPlayer" at a cost to the BBC license fee
>> payer
>> | of �130 Million and rising
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .
>
>
> So if the BBC used linux it would all be free? Not a dollar would be spent
> to implent their entire system? Not a single consultant or contractor would
> need to be hired and everything would just magically work.
>
> Absolutely "unbelievable".
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). Such a system
would be open source, standards-based, and belonging to all those that paid
for it (taxpayers). Its cost would surely be orders of magnitude lower. Heck,
given the task at hand, the jaw fall down to the ground just watching this
figure. It looks like money-funnelling.
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