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Re: [News] [Rival] MS-BBC's DRM Toolkit DoA (Disaster on Arrival)

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ waterskidoo on Saturday 28 July 2007 18:09 : \____
> 
>> On 2007-07-28, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> BBC Why-player
>>>
>>> http://www.jnlonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=41
>>>
>>> iPlayer gets _HEAPS_ of bad press today. Even Windows users complain.
>>>
>>> BBC iPlayer beta shuns Vista and Macs
>>>
>>> http://www.vnu.co.uk/vnunet/news/2195167/bbc-iplayer-shuns-vista-macs
>>>
>> 
>> I don't know much of the BBC other than I like watching and listening
>> to some of their shows, especially their classical music
>> presentations, but the bonehead who came up with this iPlayer
>> scheme should be fired on the spot.
> 
> Yes, that's Ashley Highfield, I suspect. I've already said in like 20 different
> places (threads and forums) that he should no longer retain his job after this
> fiaSCO.
> 

He really needs to be moved onto something safe and artsy, and the BBC
need to get a real engineer into this post.  What he has presided over
is appalling.

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