Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Kier on Saturday 19 January 2008 18:08 : \____
>
>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:01:41 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 19 January 2008 08:43 : \____
>>>
>>>> Thufir <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:26:21 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> The worst bit was the DG actually lying about the capabilities of the
>>>>>> Silverlight/iPlayer to an MP.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a big fan of the parliamentary system -- but I suppose there will be
>>>>> no shouting matches over this :(
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's a really good question as to where this will go next. It might be
>>>> that the MP's committee was enough pressure on the DG to force
>>>> resolution of the issues; and there is some evidence that this is so.
>>>> The newest recruit into the ex-Microsoft's Mr Huggers' department is an
>>>> Apache programmer and free software person, so there is clearly an
>>>> intent to clean things up a little. I suspect that this was the price
>>>> for Mr Huggers to keep his job.
>>>
>>> It's actually the Groklaw readership which caught this recruitment nugget
>>> and had it publicised. It's far from over. Expect some BBC grilling in
>>> Groklaw very shortly. The next SCO?
>>
>> Don't be idiotic.
>
> I was joking. Bad humours, I'll admit...
>
Roy, please don't respond to Kier's trolling - when you do, I have to
read it...
If Kier were to learn to disagree without being abusive, and support his
suppositions with evidence, then he might have something worth paying
attention to. He's a long way from that.
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