Comments on: Bill Gates Pays the BBC, Gets Coverage From the BBC http://techrights.org/2012/03/07/bbc-gates/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: salparadise http://techrights.org/2012/03/07/bbc-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-132565 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:12:35 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58803#comment-132565 we need to arouse the critical skills

Couldn’t agree more.
Although, Douglas Adams’s quote about “attacking an asylum armed only with a banana” springs to mind.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2012/03/07/bbc-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-132564 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:19:48 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58803#comment-132564 Some people still trust what the BBC claims (remember what they said when BBC expanded to North America), so we need to arouse the critical skills.

]]> By: salparadise http://techrights.org/2012/03/07/bbc-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-132563 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:05:37 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=58803#comment-132563 The BBC reported the Raspberry Pi computer as “having no software installed on it – you have to write your own”. Several minutes devoted to the start up on the flagship morning news program and the word “Linux” was not heard once. The slant of the story was “this is for hardcore geeks as it doesn’t come with any software”. To give them credit, they covered it again on the evening news, and a company employee mentioned “Debian Linux” but the BBC didn’t bother to ask what that meant.
To those who are aware of what the news has become – the whole story was biased rubbish. Designed to make people not really want one, to put them off if possible.
One wonders how long it will be before schools start asking for “the Windows version” (as this was how MS derailed the netbook phenomenon, by encouraging people to think of them as small laptops and “why don’t they behave like one, why can’t I install MS compatible crapware?”).

It’s not just tech news, it’s the same with political news.

The BBC is not to be trusted.

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