On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:22:38 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 29 January 2008 13:27 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>>>> BBC moves Linux into TV production
>> [...]
>>> Shhh, don't tell Ashley, or Eric... they'll be off to Redmond in a
>>> flash with another bag of £millions of licence-fee cash...
>>
>> Yes, note how it took a third-party to report this, rather than the
>> MSBBC discussing it on their own site. They have plenty of room for
>> their new columnist, Bill Gates, to promote Microsoft though.
>>
>> Now that they're transcoding with ffmpeg on Linux, surely they won't
>> need all that Windows Media garbage any more, and they can just produce
>> Dirac files for the iPlayer service. After all, with the streaming Flash
>> component they've been forced to provide, which is not DRM encumbered,
>> this proves that such content "protection" is not quite the mandatory
>> requirement they originally claimed.
>>
>> I never did get a response to my complaint about them misrepresenting
>> the Asus Eee PC as an "XP machine", BTW.
>
> Can you find the link?
>
> By the way, do we still have that list of 8-9 lies from the BBC. With the Flash
> thingie (no DRM), I think there are 10 and we should publish those lies more
> widely.
We?
Lest anyone have any doubt that these Linux bozos are part of an organized,
compensated campaign against anything that is not OSS, this post should
remove all doubt.
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