____/ Tom Shelton on Tuesday 15 January 2008 23:52 : \____
> On 2008-01-15, Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:35:06 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:23 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> 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? It's kind of new to me. 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). 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.
>>>> How many Firefox users are there in the UK?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Microsoft Silverlight/iPlayer wasn't ever intended to promote
>>> Firefox, rather, it was intended to use BBC Licence-payer cash to
>>> support Microsoft's attack on Firefox, Mac and Linux.
>>
>> Do you have any actual proof for this silly claim?
>>
>
> Especially since his full of total crap... Silverlight is supported on
> Windows and Mac OS X (PPC and Intel) and by IE6,IE7, FireFox 1.5 and 2.0,
> and Safari. And MS is working with Novel to produce Moonlight - the Linux
> version of Silverlight.
We're talking about ActiveX (I was anyway).
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