On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:08:33 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:21 : \____
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 16 January 2008 10:06 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If they were counting the streaming player in with that, then yes, there
>>>>>>> were Linux users in that total - I was one of them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> It's
>>>>>
>>>>> *What* corruption? Jesus, Roy, you can't go on saying stuff like this
>>>>> without proper evidence.
>>>>
>>>> c/f OP. It's right there in details. Shall you require more compelling set
>>>> of coincidence, I shall happily provide them.
>> ^s
>>
>>> If coincidence is all you've got, you'd better stop posting this stuff.
>>> You need real proof, not some coincidences.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Knowing how business works, however, it's clear that the BBC's gut feeling had
>> a lot to do with friend and partners. It was never about the taxpayer. That's
>> not just the BBC and it's not just the UK. Microsoft's pattern of briberies,
>> ecosystem harp (they used to call it "Trust" before the antitrust law came)
>> and other such things are a case of "either you're with us or you're against
>> us". The BBC has made it clear that it's not a friend of its columnist Bill
>> Gates, of Microsoft, Windows and Internet Explorer. Everything else is a
>> threat to the BBC now. When a government becomes a Microsoft shill, then the
>> nation is indanger of voluntarily locking itself in to OOXML, Sharepoint, and
>> so forth. And that's just what's happening. They let Microsoft hijack a
>> nation.
>>
>
> Does Kier work for the BBC?
Is Mark an idiot or just round the bend?
Of course I don't work for the BBC, you loon! I have in fact stated
several times on various posts what I do for a living, and is has zero to
do with the BBC or MS.
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Kier
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