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   Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 14:59:50 +0000   
   From: Bernard Peek    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: BBC may shut off non-microsoft-users   
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   In message , David Aldred    
    writes   
      
   >Actually, having completed the survey and looked at the paper to which   
   >people are responding by completing it,  that paper says that the BBC   
   >*should* provide data in an OS-agnostic manner.   
   >   
   >The problem seems to be that the BBC is constrained to use DRM (since it is   
   >under contract on much of its material) and needs to find an effective way   
   >of providing DRM protected material across OSs.   
      
   I've just completed the survey. I've pointed out that although I have    
   Windows machines I am more likely to replace XP with Linux than with    
   Vista. That goes for both home and office systems, and the reason is    
   Vista's DRM system.   
      
   If a lot more people think the same way then Microsoft won't be viable.    
   So I suggested in the survey that the BBC should make escrow    
   arrangements to get the Vista source code if MS goes phut.   
      
      
      
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