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.
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K.
http://slated.org
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