Re: Future BBC Online Services

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:00:47 +0100
Ian Hilliard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:00:03 +0000, macerata wrote:

The URL below gives some background to this. I'd appreciate your help and
any comments on how I/we might go about pursuing this. It seems it is
becoming increasingly common that new multimedia services are not being
made accessible to Linux users and Microsoft are again getting an
unjustifiable foothold and, therefore, dominance in this area, with the
full complicity of organisations like the BBC.

Has the BBC's charter recently been rewritten making it a division of
Microsoft marketing?

From the video clip, it appears that this functionality requires Microsoft
Vista, an OS that hasn't even been released yet. There is no way that they
can claim that this is the OS with the most users.

Ian

I have written to them myself, expressing my great concern that they, a
publicly funded body, seem unable to make the distinction between
aggressive monopolisation and genuine user preference.

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