____/ 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
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| 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"
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/11186/anti-drm-protesters-call-bbc-eliminate-drm-iplayer
And effect:
BBC sacks 2,500 skilled staff
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| 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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