____/ Mark Kent on Friday 18 January 2008 22:57 : \____
> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>
>>> I think we can claim a massive victory here. The ex-Microsoft Mr
>>> Huggers spent over £100 millions with Microsoft for something which
>>> didn't work, the flash version was developed in weeks on a tiny
>>> budget, and the BBC has begun to recruit open-source people into Mr
>>> Hugger's area. Presumably this is how he's trying to keep his job...
>>
>> The thing that really gets me about this ridiculous situations, is that
>> the Beeb used to be *crawling* with Open Source engineers, working on
>> things like Dirac and other technology. What happened to all those
>> people? Were they just dumped to make way for the Microsoft takeover?
>>
>>
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/04/19/201859/reliability-drives-linux-use-at-bbc.htm
>>
>> Maybe Ashley Highfield or Mark Thomson can answer that question, along
>> with all the many other pressing questions that need to be asked?
>>
>
> I think that the open-source guys are still there, probably keeping
> their heads down, and hoping the ex-Microsoft buffoons will embarrass
> themselves into P.45 land in short order.
>
> The BBC always had several of the world's best engineers.
I found this in a new RMS interview:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
'It is important to know this because we will always face pressure, from those
who are powerful and would like to take away our freedom, to surrender our
freedom—and they frequently offer us something attractive in exchange. For
instance, B’liar wanted to abolish the Rights of Englishmen, and to serve his
American master, Bush, faithfully; so he offered Britons “protection” from
this or that, plus the imagined idea that he influences his master on their
behalf through the “special relationship”.
The same thing happens in our field, too. Companies making consumer electronics
products want to impose DRM on us; they want to do this in programs that they
receive as free software, then pass them on to us in such a way that we do not
have the freedom to change them. So they invite us to allow our software to be
tivoized, and offer us, as an inducement, that our software will be “more
popular” if we cave in.'
New interview and very relevant to this discussion. From what I've read (by
E-mail), Gordon Brown is another who is happy to become a {Prisoner of
Redmond}^TM. Mind you, I'm kind of pro-labour, but it sickens me to see their
sort of fascistic slant in IT. The Tories said they would bring Free software,
but that could just be a publicity stunt. The Greens are very pro-Free
software and I'm not sure about the Liberal Democrats.
--
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