____/ 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. :-)
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