Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Tuning In to Microsoft Silverlight for Olympic Gold
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>>| It's also serving notice that Microsoft wants to be one of the
>>| major "channels" for Internet television.
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>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2246127,00.asp
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> 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.
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