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Re: [News] Linux Dominates in Xmas Gifts, Volunteers Reach Out

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:36:30 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Kier on Monday 31 December 2007 17:41 : \____
>> 
>>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:31:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 13:21 : \____
>>>> 
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Tux Droid delivers a very Merry Linuxmas
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| Although it could be argued that your average fanboy has already got the
>>>>>>| present they wanted this xmas in the continuing growth of Linux in terms
>>>>>>| of both actual deployment and media popularity, or maybe the arrival of
>>>>>>| the Linux server for Unreal Tournament 3 or even the fact that the BBC
>>>>>>| iPlayer is now Linux compatible. But no, believe me, when they see the
>>>>>>| dancing plastic penguin that announces the arrival of new email all that
>>>>>>| will change.
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1904.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The BBC iPlayer is *not* linux compatible and it never will be.  It is
>>>>> the Microsoft Silverlight player, and will only ever run on Windows.
>>>>> The BBC paid hundreds of millions of our licence-fee cash in order to
>>>>> put a skin on the Silverlight player.

>>>> 
>>>> Yet the above shows you how many people they fooled with their PR charade. I
>>>> keep insisting that Linux and Mac are not supported (Flash is a second-class
>>>> compromise) and a lot of money is dead (inside the belly of a convicted
>>>> criminal).
>>> 
>>> A lot of people would rather have the flash streaming than the download
>>> option.
>> 
>> That's true. 
> 
> Whilst it might be true, it's not the point.  Hundreds of millions of my
> and your and Kier's cash have been given to Microsoft for skin for the
> Silverlight player.  It will *never* run on Linux, on Mac, on portable

How do you *know* this? You can't.

> devices, on PS3s, on Wiis, on symbian phones, even XP Windows machines.

You really think the BBC is going to be stupid enough to shut out the
millions and millions of people who still run XP? Other devices, maybe.
This service is designed for computers, not phones, and certainly not for
the Wii.

> 
>> Some say they should have never burned so much money on the
>> download service (streaming is the future). They should have gone with
>> something like Ogg (or Flash) in the first place.
> 
> They had their own codec, called Dirac, which they developed in-house
> for the specific purpose of avoiding a need to waste licence-fee cash on
> royalty payments.  I had a long chat with one of the developers three or
> four years ago at the Linux expo at Olympia about it.

Is it a video codec or an audio one? Was it developed only for in-house
use, or for public use?

-- 
Kier


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