On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:13:43 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ 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).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
Can you *prove* any of this?
> 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.
This isn't proof, Roy. It's all conjecture. You have to show actual
evidence of corrupt activity. Can you?
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Kier
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