Fixed BBC iPlayer hacked again
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| "I did it mostly for entertainment and for the challenge of doing it," said
| Battley. "Also, I'm a Linux user, and the BBC iPlayer originally was only for
| Windows — I felt a bit alienated. The BBC released the iPhone version of
| iPlayer, and there's no Linux support."
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39366057,00.htm
It's not the issue of 'breaking' locks (well, simple agent forging in the past)
which should be defended, but access to content without deliberate exclusion.
BBC is a Microsoft agent of monopolisation. It snubs Microsoft's #1 rival. A
complaint was filed with the EU.
Recent:
http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
“A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system.
Although we believe our products provide customers with significant advantages
in security, productivity, and total cost of ownership, the popularization of
the open source software model continues to pose a significant challenge to
our business model, including continuing efforts by proponents of open source
software to convince governments worldwide to mandate the use of open source
software in their purchase and deployment of software products. To the extent
open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales of our products
may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for our products, and
revenue and operating margins may consequently decline. ”
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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