On Jan 16, 12:23 am, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> > ____/ Tom Shelton on Tuesday 15 January 2008 23:52 : \____
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> >> On 2008-01-15, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:35:06 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
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> >>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:23 : \____
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> >>>>>> I particularly liked the "More than £20 million" as the figure given
> >>>>>> for the skin the BBC bought for Microsoft's Silverlight player.
> >>>>>> Accepted estimates put the figure at around £100 million, which would
> >>>>>> suggest that Mark Thompson's response should have been " £80 million
> >>>>>> more than £20 million, in fact, coming to about £100 millions of
> >>>>>> licence-fee cash spent on a skin for a Microsoft-only player".
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> >>>>>> Heads should roll for this.
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> >>>>>> Also, how can a DG /not/ know what the numbers were?
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> >>>>> What's with ActiveX anyway? It's kind of new to me. I saw another article
> >>>>> about this later and they both seem to suggest that the BBC not only
> >>>>> requires that you use Windows, but also that you use that buggy spyware
> >>>>> called IE (no Firefox support). In case you didn't know, IE7 is spyware
> >>>>> indeed... Microsoft keeps hush-hush about it, but it knows who you are and
> >>>>> exactly what Web pages you visit! People must be told about this. The BBC
> >>>>> puts you in DRM prison and forces you to use Windows and IE. Outrageous.
> >>>>> How many Firefox users are there in the UK?
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> >>>> The Microsoft Silverlight/iPlayer wasn't ever intended to promote
> >>>> Firefox, rather, it was intended to use BBC Licence-payer cash to
> >>>> support Microsoft's attack on Firefox, Mac and Linux.
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> >>> Do you have any actual proof for this silly claim?
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> >> Especially since his full of total crap... Silverlight is supported on
> >> Windows and Mac OS X (PPC and Intel) and by IE6,IE7, FireFox 1.5 and 2.0,
> >> and Safari. And MS is working with Novel to produce Moonlight - the Linux
> >> version of Silverlight.
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> > We're talking about ActiveX (I was anyway).
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> The point remains that Microsoft have never had any intention of making
> Silverlight/iPlayer functional on anything other than Windows. After
> spending £100 million of licence-fee payer's cash, even the BBC DG was
> lying to MPs about this, although later claimed an "error".
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> Kier is here to troll, as is Shelton. They're best ignored, Roy.
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I would like to post a partial apology... Reading more about the
situation, you are correct in that iPlayer is windows only (well,
actually that's only partially true - the mac version has been
released, but it doesn't support downloads yet). I thought you were
talking about silverlight - which does in fact work on other platforms
and browsers. So, the problem is with the iPlayer not with
silverlight. But, the Linux version and Mac (downloadable content)
version are expected to be operational sometime this year.
So, there you have it.
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Tom Shelton
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