Hi! Simon Morris wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:45 +0100, Gareth Bowker wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >>> The BBC has announced today a partnership with Microsoft to deliver "Web >>> 2.0" (Whatever that means) content services to the public. >> Do you have a link to the announcement? > > Yes, Sorry. I meant to include that in the original post > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5390000.stm
Oh dear, Bill Gates' chum Ashley Highfield is colluding on this one again. Highfield already sold out the licence fee payers to Microsoft with his DRM iMP player. (Incidentally the BBC is ramping up for the roll out of Highfield's DRM iMP at present.) I wrote about this on my blog a last year: http://jguk.org/2005/blog_2005_06_02_downloadable_bbc_audio_content.html [...] >> OK. I can't make a start on this before 6pm. Do you have any time before >> then? > > Possibly. I just hope this isn't a done deal. Most likely it is, Highfield shared the stage with Gates [1] [2] [3]. Regulatory approval will be more of a rubber-stamp considering Mark Thompson attended the "fact finding mission" /to Seattle/ -- ironic they didn't visit Silicon valley on their trip!? There are no independent tech people on the board to represent our side of the debate. Some related info, at present BBC Technology division run by Siemens is split approx 50/50 between unixy and windows groups, with the unix group doing real streaming and websites, and windows group doing forums and WMP streams. So the switch to Microsoft seems gradual and accepted within the BBC, under the guise of their refocusing, modernisation and reform etc. Let's hope we can get them to take a better direction forward! Kind regards Jon Reference [1]: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060321/3061/ [2]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4828336.stm [3]: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68003d168/bb/09012da68003d1c6_16x9_bb.ram> (Video only viewable with RealNetworks RealPlayer codecs) _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
