[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue Jun 29 23:46:31 UTC 2010


On 06/30/2010 05:50 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> them. I had some discussions with NetFlix recently about why they
>> don't support Linux with their Instant Watch environment. The answer
>> was (paraphrased) 'Because it's s den of thieves...'
>
> Oh, and we all know that Windows users are /so/ virtuous.
>
> NetFlix uses Silverlight with some extra ActiveX junk. Sounds like 
> they've been drinking someone's kool-aid.
>

It's also highly likley that Microsoft pays Netflix to use it's 
technology and has an agreement with them to actively promote against 
any other options.



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd



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