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Re: [News] [Rights] BBC Director General lies about iPlayer to Government

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:39:13 -0600, Tom Shelton wrote:

> On 2008-01-15, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ [H]omer on Monday 14 January 2008 01:57 : \____
>>> 
>>>> No wonder Mark "to be honest" Thomson is stuttering so much, with such a
>>>> bunch of lies as that. And in parliament ... and on camera too! His new
>>>> columnist, Bill Gates, must be paying him well.
>>> 
>>> Priceless!
>>> 
>>> I don't know if you know this, but the BBC has become so frightened of
>>> awareness that its heads started responding in one of my blogs. They are
>>> really desperate to defend themselves and they do using all sorts of pointers
>>> and false claims.
>>> 
>>> But, hey! There are only 400-600 people on the BBC Web site, right Ashley? To
>>> heck with Linux. Maybe he should also stop using Google...
>>> 
>>
>> They have dug a wonderfully deep hole here.  There is really no excuse
>> for paying out £100 millions of licence-payer cash on a skin for
>> silverlight which supports, err, Microsoft Vista, not Firefox, not Mac,
>> not Linux, virtually zero mobile devices, virtually zero appliances.
>>
> 
> You obviously don't know what your talking about...  
> http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/faq.aspx
> 
> Silverlight has options on XP, Vista, and Mac OS X (PPC and Intel).  It is supported in
> FireFox and Safari as well as IE.  Linux support is announced as future
> - they are working with Novel to produce Moonlight, which is the Linux
>   version.  It's also planned to be released for Windows 2K.

Yea, but your story, despite being factual, doesn't fit into their (Mark,
Roy, Homer etc) agenda.

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