____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 12:47 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ 7 on Saturday 12 January 2008 19:46 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Geeks Build Gadget With Bug
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | The gadget, which runs on the Linux operating system, is purchased as a
>>>> | blank slate. Because it's an open source gadget, programmers can develop
>>>> | applications for it that can turn it into an MP3 player or a mobile text
>>>> | device, among a variety of other things. So far, a community of
>>>> | programmers has developed several applications for the device that can
>>>> | be downloaded from the company's Web site.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4118258&page=1
>>>
>>>
>>> A totally dumb MSBBC tax paying viewer is now obliged to say the
>>> following...
>>>
>>> "...but I watched MSBBC today and it showed the bug and all its
>>> features but it didn't mention Linux. Cooiee! Is this a Linux gadget
>>> I see before me? Do I believe you or do I believe the MSBBC Click
>>> program?"
>>
>> I didn't watch it, but I imagine that they only showed shiny object from
>> their columnist, Bill Gates (yes, he writes for the BBC now).
>>
>
> Presumably, there's a bit of a cover-up going on here, because once it's
> admitted that there really *are* linux devices out there, in use, in
> very large numbers, then the argument that the Microsoft/BBC £100
> million skin for the Silverlight player only needing to run on Windows
> Vista because "that's what everyone uses" is rather obviously shown to
> be wrong.
>
> I suspect that these two issues are related. After all, if you'd wasted
> £100 Million of licence-fee money ( or "more than £20 million but I
> don't have the figures to hand", as the DG put it ), then you'd probably
> be keen to hide the vastness of the mismanagement of public money you'd
> been involved in, too.
Someone must really tell them about mobile devices. They are the future. 4
billion embedded devices were sold in 2006 alone and Linux is the
fastest-growing kernel in this domain.
The BBC built a dinosaur (blob) for another dinosaur (Windows _desktop_). The
BBC must therefore be a dinosaur itself. Auntie Beeb has just become a
grandma.
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~~ Best of wishes
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