____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 20 January 2008 11:44 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Roy Schestowitz on Friday 18 January 2008 02:48 : \____
>>
>>> BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 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.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/
>>>
>>
>> Little update:
>>
>> Full transcripts of the grilling will soon be added to Groklaw, followed by
>> hundreds of angry comments from a sophisticated 'mob'. This will be fun.
>>
>
> I very much doubt we'll ever see any of the £100 million back, though.
> No doubt it's already lining the pockets of those at Microsoft.
Well, they can pass that money back to Brown's (budget briefcase), who will
continues to ensure that Britian willingly locks itself in to Microsoft. Maybe
they can discuss this in the hallway in the next Bilderberg meeting
(the 'Gateses' and the Labour leaders are both there).
--
~~ Best of wishes
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