On Jan 16, 10:13 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:21 : \____
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> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:02:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:53 : \____
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> >>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:34:47 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >>>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:06 : \____
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> >>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >>>>>> Two separate and independent sources said it was well over 100 million.
> >>>>>> I think the BBC is now trying to bend the definitions as it came up with
> >>>>>> a new figures that those responsible spit out in their blog (and mine)
> >>>>>> while attempting to remain consistent wrt the numbers. They used a
> >>>>>> subset of the whole to change the figure for all I can tell. By the way,
> >>>>>> the BBC published an article praising (its own) iPlayer yesterday. It
> >>>>>> boasted one million users (none of whom uses a Mac of Linux).
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> >>>>> If they were counting the streaming player in with that, then yes, there
> >>>>> were Linux users in that total - I was one of them.
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> >>>> I think they counted one million for the download/P2P service. That was in
> >>>> a BBC, which is separate from the report in the Register. They use their
> >>>> editorial control in the BBC site to defend/hide their corruption, IMHO.
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> >>> *What* corruption? Jesus, Roy, you can't go on saying stuff like this
> >>> without proper evidence.
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> >> c/f OP. It's right there in details. Shall you require more compelling set
> >> of coincidence, I shall happily provide them.
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> ^s
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> > If coincidence is all you've got, you'd better stop posting this stuff.
> > You need real proof, not some coincidences.
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> If you're asking me for some E-mail from Ashley or Erik to the General
> saying "hey, we should just pick Microsoft," then I can't offer it to you. If
> you require dinner bills that show Erik Huggers having many nice evenings with
> his former colleagues at Microsoft, I can't offer it. If you want a transcript
> of phonecalls from Microsoft to the BBC saying that "nobody uses Linux" or "it
> infringes on Microsoft IP," I can't offer that to you.
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> Knowing how business works, however,
Do you really know, or are you just guessing? Business classes? Actual
job? Neither?
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