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Re: [News] Linux Fury at MSBBC Claimed to be Justified

____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 17 January 2008 08:03 : \____

> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>> 
>>> The point remains that Microsoft have never had any intention of
>>> making Silverlight/iPlayer functional on anything other than Windows.
>>> After spending £100 million of licence-fee payer's cash, even the
>>> BBC DG was lying to MPs about this, although later claimed an
>>> "error".
>> 
>> Moonlight is little more than a hack on Silverlight, and will likely
>> never have full Silverlight functionality due to licensing and patent
>> restrictions. Therefore the possibility of implementing a version of
>> iPlayer on GNU/Linux is very slim indeed, particularly as the Microsoft
>> DRM infrastructure needed for the "protected" content is unlikely to
>> ever be developed for Linux either.
>> 
>> I found a reliable source for the £100 Million figure, by the way:
>> 
>>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/12/20/dlbbc120.xml
>> 
>> The "lie" that Thomson made was actually WRT the capabilites of the
>> iPlayer "you can do that [download content] now". The lie WRT the total
>> *cost* of iPlayer was actually made by the woman on his right (whoever
>> she is ... I didn't catch the name). Thomson didn't deny her (false)
>> claim though.
>> 
> 
> Ahh, sneaky, he got a prole to lie for him.  Nasty b*gger.  Considering
> that he's the DG of the BBC, and has been brought to talk about the
> Silverlight/iPlayer, it's truly incredible that he doesn't have the
> figures to hand, wouldn't you say?  The guy should be looking for
> another role.

I hear there are many vacancies for high roles at Microsoft. The top staff has
been quitting the company since the year began and I can't help wondering if
this has something to do with the seemingly-infinite OOXML corruptions, the
recent briberies, the stock buybacks, and the VP's illegal inside-trading
activity, not to mention closure of two branches worldwide for alleged fraud
and antitrust litigations in the EU.

Oh, I went off topic there. Anyway, my point was that the DG might find those
vacancies at Microsoft interesting.

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