Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 14 March 2008 08:37 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 13 March 2008 17:17 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Steve Jobs rescues freetards from BBC iPlayer wilderness (for now)
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| iPhone streams start DRM-free download party
>>>>>|
>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>|
>>>>>| The BBC says an official Mac download client will be available this year,
>>>>>| and a Linux one "within two years".
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/iplayer_linux_stream_download_hack/
>>>>>
>>>>> They said it would be ready in 2008, so they lied again. They also lied
>>>>> about DRM being required, among many other lies. Microsoft must have
>>>>> passed them the Big Lie handbook on copyrights and DRM -- the same book
>>>>> used to fool politicians who blindly give a nod to DMCA, i.e. 'make FOSS
>>>>> illegal'.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft have *never* had any intention of providing a linux client.
>>>> It doesn't matter how many £100s of millions of our cash Ashley shovels
>>>> into the trouser pockets in Redmond, Microsoft will *not* produce a
>>>> good, working, iPlayer client for Linux. It would be commercial suicide
>>>> for themselves - why would they do it?
>>>>
>>>> You'd have to be fairly dumb not to spot that, Ashley, eh?
>>>
>>> he sort of insisted that only 600 people in the UK use that software which
>>> Microsoft calls its number one competitor. He's part of the Big Lie Club.
>>
>> Maybe he'd been told that by Microsfot people and actually believed
>> them? He could be very naive.
>
> He may have been DeIcaza-ised. :-)
>
Haha, yes... get some nice blinkers, tinted specs for underneath, a pair
of highly selective headphones, and you're off, you can *really* try to
believe that "Silverlight" is the future, and that promoting Microsoft
technologies is the role of the BBC.
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