Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:23 : \____
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>> I particularly liked the "More than £20 million" as the figure given
>> for the skin the BBC bought for Microsoft's Silverlight player.
>> Accepted estimates put the figure at around £100 million, which would
>> suggest that Mark Thompson's response should have been " £80 million
>> more than £20 million, in fact, coming to about £100 millions of
>> licence-fee cash spent on a skin for a Microsoft-only player".
>>
>> Heads should roll for this.
>>
>> Also, how can a DG /not/ know what the numbers were?
>
> What's with ActiveX anyway?
>
ActiveX? That's the "hole" that Microsoft innovated, that allows for "rape"
of your Windows driven computer... It's one of the biggest, single vector
for third party abuse....
> It's kind of new to me.
>
You're lucky.
> I saw another article
> about this later and they both seem to suggest that the BBC not only
> requires that you use Windows, but also that you use that buggy spyware
> called IE (no Firefox support).
>
IE supports ActiveX... it's like... a gaping wound and puss... they go hand
in hand. ActiveX being a proprietary "thing", FireFox/Mozilla doesn't have
access to it.
> In case you didn't know, IE7 is spyware
> indeed... Microsoft keeps hush-hush about it, but it knows who you are and
> exactly what Web pages you visit! People must be told about this. The BBC
> puts you in DRM prison and forces you to use Windows and IE. Outrageous.
>
That's how "they" track you... Use windows and ie and get a nice upload from
MI5... free.
> How many Firefox users are there in the UK?
>
Time will tell.
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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