The Art of Slashdotting
"The BBC's head of technology denied rumors that a secret deal with Microsoft was behind the XP-only launch of the BBC's iPlayer. According to Ashley Highfield, the reason that the player only supports Windows XP is that only a small number of Linux visitors have come to the BBC's website."
tech.co.uk (via /.)
There is something deeply beautiful about posting bait like this on a rabidly anti-MS, pro-Linux web site with as massive a reader base as Slashdot.
I wonder what their server logs say now?
What the British Bullshit Corporation fails to understand about blog culture is that we call it as we see it and our opinion of such affairs is what we are actually offering. If it looks like collusion then the reaction is going to be the same regardless of the actual intent. Common sense should lead any halfwit to the obvious realisation: it is not enough to simply avoid being corrupt, one must also behave as though uncorrupted.
Mr Highfield, give 'em the damn Linux player!