On Jan 15, 7:28 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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I wasn't responding to your comments. I was responding to Mark's
["The Microsoft Silverlight/iPlayer wasn't"...]
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