----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 07:19 Subject: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.
> I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television > business/consumer program called "Working Lunch". > > In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the > Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we > computer users, the following statements were made: > > "You can't just go out on the High Street and buy a different Operating > system". > > "There are others, but Windows is the best". > > After dwelling on Windows and briefly mentioning Mac, their "Consumer Affairs > Correspondant" said, "There is a third system called Linux. However it is > very complicated and you have to be a computer expert to be able to use it. I > certainly couldn't use it" > > With a large influential company (the BBC) making such pro-Microsoft and > anti-Linux statements such as this, we have quite an opposition to overcome. > > It's no good writing to them and complaining, as they won't want to know. > > I sign myself "A disgusted viewer". > Consider the source. The BBC is NOT a credible source. Hoyt
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