Re: [Fsfe-uk] Amusing BBC interview.

[Chris Croughton]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:25:43AM +0000, P.L.Hayes wrote:

> I 'Woke up to Money' (BBC Radio 5 Live) on Friday morning and could hardly 
> believe what I was hearing. It was an interview with John Lovelock of 
> F.A.S.T. about software piracy and what his organisation intends to do about 
> it. It seems the BBC people also considered it remarkable enough to put it up 
> in a special place on their site. If you haven't heard it, it's here:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/39746000/rm/
> _39746201_software05_lovelock.ram

I can't do RealAudio, is there a transcript?  Or an OggVorbis (or even
MP3 or WAV) version I can download?  (I can d/l sound files with wget
and play them on another machine but can't do realtime-to-sound, and RA
doesn't allow downloading as far as I know.)

> or you can navigate to it via the BBCi News/Technology section. It's quite 
> the 
> most extraordinary interview with one of the 'enemy' I have ever heard.

Going by the BBCi News/Technology section it looks as though they are
quite anti-Linux, all of the recent articles there have been slanted as
though SCO is in the right.  For instance the new (16 Jan) article
"Linux users face licence cash call": "Users who do not buy a licence to
use Linux could end up in court as the origins of the software are
contested", which is not only 'old' news (except that Europe has now
been included) but doesn't mention that SCO have shown in their latest
deposition that they have no 'evidence' at all and are now trying to
claim that anything written for AIX -- or even OS/2! -- is theirs.

Chris C