I note that Stephen Fry has posted this, which seems to cover it quite
well..
'I have opened myself to charges of the most monstrous hypocrisy by
championing open source and free software while simultaneously using
proprietary systems here and there, hither and yon. I hold my hand up to the
sin
Am I the only person in the world who finds Stephen Fry an unutterable
bore?
That is a lot of words to use to say Big Fat Nothing.
Summed up better as
I like the idea of free software but I basically can't be arsed putting
myself to any inconvenience
Hardly a groundbreaking position for
Brian Butterworth wrote:
I note that Stephen Fry has posted this, which seems to cover it quite
well..
Hear hear. :-)
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Similarly, if Channel 4 want to DRM all their media then it's entirely
their choice because they don't have my money and they aren't funded
by what amounts to a tax. If I was a Channel 4 shareholder I might
raise the
Similarly, if Channel 4 want to DRM all their media then it's
entirely their choice because they don't have my money and
they aren't funded by what amounts to a tax. If I was a
Channel 4 shareholder I might raise the same issues of DRM at an AGM.
You are a Channel 4 shareholder. In
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Brian Butterworth
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I note that Stephen Fry has posted this, which seems to cover it quite
well..
'I have opened myself to charges of the most monstrous hypocrisy by
championing open source and free software while simultaneously using
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Similarly, if Channel 4 want to DRM all their media then it's entirely
their choice because they don't have my money and they aren't
Thanks for sending this - what a wonderfully eloquent and dignified
response...
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On Thursday 16 October 2008 14:21:18 Andrew Bowden wrote:
Nope. It's fully public - the Channel 4 Television Corporation officially.
Ahh, maybe I'm thinking of a discussion in 2004 where it mooted having a share
release then, leaving it at 51%. Obviously that never happened.
Michael.
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Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/10/15 Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, the fact that this will run on all the Linux PCs in
both my houseand office is a shockingly pro-Microsoft
move and must be stopped!
The fact that this will run only with proprietary software is
continuing the BBC's
I wonder how one can best persuade the relevant people at the BBC to lay
out, adopt and embrace a forward thinking strategy to allow end users to
access any and all of their services using only free software...
I suspect that, for the most part, it isn't the BBC that you need to convince.
Indeed I had been under the impression there was progress when Ashley
Highfield told me last November that long-term, DRM should be open
source or better yet, work should be done with rights holders to do
away with DRM.
In my conversations with people from PACT I got the distinct
impression that
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