Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ 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?
I suppose he thinks that this waste of licence payers fees didn't contribute
to it either? As I posted before:-
How much did they pay to M$ for iPlayer? I saw somewhere it was
approximately £200 million, though I can't find teh link ATM.
There was £90million lost here:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2122369,00.html
And how much was wasted here?
http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051166
The BBC has a £2 *billion* shortfall in it's budget, & thus is making
cutbacks which include selling off the BBC Television Centre.
http://itn.co.uk/news/fbfadf1f215d2d4b1125c59163cfd804.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7050122.stm
Now if Kier doesn't think those losses are a *huge* chunk out of the BBC's
budget.....or maybe he doesn't believe they *are* losses.
> 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
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | FSF Executive Director attending the protest spoke about the corrupting
> | influence of Microsoft, "BBC values have been corrupted because BBC
> | Executives are too closely associated with Microsoft. BBC values have
> | been corrupted because the iPlayer uses proprietary software and
> | standards made under an exclusive deal with Microsoft. BBC values have
> | been corrupted because license fee payers must now own a Microsoft
> | operating system to download BBC programming. BBC values have been
> | corrupted because license fee payers must accept DRM technologies that
> | spy and monitor on the digital files held on their computers. We are
> | here today to help BBC Director General Mark Thompson, clean up this DRM
> | mess, and to encourage the BBC Trust to reverse course and eliminate DRM
> | from the BBC iPlayer"
> `----
>
>
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11186/anti-drm-protesters-call-bbc-eliminate-drm-iplayer
>
> And effect:
>
> BBC sacks 2,500 skilled staff
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, told a BBC hack who was
> | clearing his desk: "Nothing said today reassures us that the BBC is
> | committed to meaningful negotiations over the change. Unless the BBC
> | reconsiders its position, strike action looks inevitable."
> `----
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