On Dec 31 2007, 7:36 pm, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> > ____/ Kier on Monday 31 December 2007 17:41 : \____
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> >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:31:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 13:21 : \____
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> >>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >>>>> Tux Droid delivers a very Merry Linuxmas
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> >>>>>| Although it could be argued that your average fanboy has already got the
> >>>>>| present they wanted this xmas in the continuing growth of Linux in terms
> >>>>>| of both actual deployment and media popularity, or maybe the arrival of
> >>>>>| the Linux server for Unreal Tournament 3 or even the fact that the BBC
> >>>>>| iPlayer is now Linux compatible. But no, believe me, when they see the
> >>>>>| dancing plastic penguin that announces the arrival of new email all that
> >>>>>| will change.
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> >>>>>http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1904.html
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> >>>> The BBC iPlayer is *not* linux compatible and it never will be. It is
> >>>> the Microsoft Silverlight player, and will only ever run on Windows.
> >>>> The BBC paid hundreds of millions of our licence-fee cash in order to
> >>>> put a skin on the Silverlight player.
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> >>> Yet the above shows you how many people they fooled with their PR charade. I
> >>> keep insisting that Linux and Mac are not supported (Flash is a second-class
> >>> compromise) and a lot of money is dead (inside the belly of a convicted
> >>> criminal).
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> >> A lot of people would rather have the flash streaming than the download
> >> option.
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> > That's true.
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> Whilst it might be true, it's not the point. Hundreds of millions of my
> and your and Kier's cash have been given to Microsoft for skin for the
> Silverlight player. It will *never* run on Linux, on Mac, on portable
> devices, on PS3s, on Wiis, on symbian phones, even XP Windows machines.
Ha, still pushing the PS3 as a desktop replacement huh? Maybe that
should be the 5th entry in your (new) blog: "Why 2 PS3s with Linux on
them is a Trend."
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