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BBC Opens Up - Or Does it?
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| But nice as this sounds, there still seems to be a disconnect between the
| BBC's announced ideals and their actions. As the very definition of open
| standards that the BBC itself linked to says, "Open Standards are free for
| all to implement, with no royalty or fee." The fact that both AAC and H.264
| are encumbered with patent licenses that make their distribution under free
| licenses problematic flies in the face of this definition.
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http://ostatic.com/170869-blog/bbc-opens-up-or-does-it
Recent:
Crimes Microsoft Gets Away With - So Far
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| News publications are cautious about making accusations, and because of that,
| some nasty acts of Microsoft are essentially being erased from the record.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft convinced Baystar Capital to put $50 Million dollars into SCO's
| lawsuit against IBM and other Open Source users, and promised to "backstop"
| Baystar's investment if SCO lost money, according to this sworn testimony.
| But I'm told that one person's testimony, even sworn testimony, isn't proof.
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http://technocrat.net/no-cache/d/2008/7/30/46981
BBC set to name Erik Huggers as Ashley Highfield's successor
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| The BBC is expected to confirm that former Microsoft executive Erik Huggers
| is to replace Ashley Highfield as the new BBC director of future media and
| technology as early as today.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/15/bbc.digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media
Related:
BBC iPlayer protest report
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| First on site with me is Tom Chance, Green Party spokesperson on Free
| Software. He has organized for Dr Derek Wall, lead spokesperson for the Green
| Party to join us and make some statements about BBC iPlayer and the Microsoft
| lock-in it establishes.
|
| [...]
|
| We have 1500 fliers to distribute, that focus on the key issue with the
| iPlayer, and why $130 Million and 4 years of development don't get you much
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| when you choose Microsoft DRM.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/iPlayerProtestReport
BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer
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| During the meeting there is discussion of iPlayer’s total cost to the licence
| fee-payer - the BBC representatives are unable to give a figure, but start
| the bidding at £20m, excluding staff costs. Thomson gives incorrect
| information - that Mac and Linux versions of iPlayer have the same
| functionality as Windows versions - and has to change his evidence at the
| end. Perhaps it was this confusion that prompted Dr John Pugh MP to follow up
| the encounter with a letter direct to Mark Thomson today discussing platform
| neutrality in greater detail. A copy of this letter has been passed to the
| Open Rights Group.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/
BBC website £36m 'overspend'
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| THE BBC went almost £36 million over the intended budget for bbc.co.uk in the
| past year, it was disclosed today.
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1051855_bbc_website_36m_overspend?rss=yes?rss=yes
The BBC Has Drunk its Brain
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| Good to see the BBC with its finger on the pulse of computing, bravely
| serving up the facts without fear or favour here:
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| Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch
| features as an alternative to the mouse.
|
| Rather like the Hewlett-Packard touchscreen system I used back in the 1980s.
|
| [...]
|
| Is this a similar statement to 2003's "Bill Gates said that Longhorn will
| have a unified storage system called WinFS." found at
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3220017.stm
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/bbc-has-drunk-its-brain.html
Has the BBC Duped Us over iPlayer?
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| Totally far-out, man. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLOODY GNU/LINUX VERSION?
|
| I wonder how that complaint about the BBC providing state aid to Microsoft is
| coming along....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/04/has-bbc-duped-us-over-iplayer.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/bill_gates_bbc_secrets/
Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates
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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411
BBC iPlayer Protests
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| Who are the people responsible for creating this mess?
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| * Mark Thompson, BBC director general (DG)
| * Erik Huggers, group controller at BBC Future Media & Technology
| * Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology
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| Right now, there is very considerable concern within the BBC that the actions
| of the Director General and his team are sending the corporation in the wrong
| direction. The BBC has been embroiled in a number of recent controversies,
| all linked back to the DG's leadership.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/iPlayerProtest
Leaked Ofcom blueprint bashes Beeb
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| OFCOM SECRETS have again slipped out, as latest report suggests that the poor
| old BBC may have to ‘donate’ some of its licence fee to other channels.
|
| This leaked information suggests the BBC’s ‘excess’ licence money will be
| given, yes given, to other broadcasters for public service by 2012.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/28/leaked-ofcom-blueprint-favours
Remoulding Microsoft for the web
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| Yesterday two of Microsoft's leading executives, Jean Philippe Courtois, head
| of all Microsoft outside North America, and Gordon Frazer, head of Microsoft
| UK visited BBC News' Business Unit, as part of a series of lunchtime talks we
| arrange with leading businesses.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/remoulding_microsoft_for_the_w.html
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