"Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Tuning In to Microsoft Silverlight for Olympic Gold
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| It's also serving notice that Microsoft wants to be one of the
>>>>| major "channels" for Internet television.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2246127,00.asp
>>>>
>>>
>>> Once upon a time, the Olympic Games, like Rugby Union, were a
>>> celebration amateur sport, constrasting strongly with the football world
>>> cup, which was the personification of professional sport. Over the last
>>> few years, the Olympics have become a celebration of commercial
>>> activity, completely losing the ethos of amateur sport.
>>>
>>> If anyone is dumb enough to have Microsoft be the "official" channel for
>>> internet television, then Microsoft will merely exclude anyone not using
>>> Windows Vista, exactly as the have with the Microsoft Silverlight/BBC
>>> iPlayer.
>>
>>
>> Even better - arrange alternative olympic event and allow open sourcers
>> to host the televising and streaming and let those who are disatisfied
>> with
>> over commercialised olympics to participate in this more free olympics.
>>
>
> What a fascinating idea... I don't know how the initial image capture
> would be achieved, though, without some public service broadcaster being
> involved, but maybe the money could be found...
>
This is a freaking joke. One moron "7" suggests that someone create an
alternative to the olympics so that "open sourcers" can host it.
Then a bigger idiot "Mark Kent" chimes in with what a fascinating idea this
is.
Hey COLA idiots... isn't there already a separate olympics for linux users.
I think it's called the "Special Olympics."
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