The Rotting Web

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| Let’s go one more step though. Let’s say you want to know, specifically, what
| happened in the trial according to ace Microsoft reporter, and I’m pleased to
| say my friend, Mary Jo Foley who covered the Microsoft/DoJ case like paint.
| In January 2001, a search on Microsoft DOJ and Mary Jo Foley would have found
| 1,820 records.    
|
| None of the first twenty, the most popular links, are still active in 2008.
| And, as far as Google 2008 is concerned those stories don’t exist. That
| means, for most people, those stories never happened. It means, in short,
| that if you rely on the Web for “The Truth” you’re relying on something
| that’s constantly rotting away and falling apart.    
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http://practical-tech.com/network/the-rotting-web/#more-854

People then rely on the MSBBC's revisionism, for example.

Recent:

The Gates Transition

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| In an interview with the BBC which is being widely linked, I recently
| said “claims by Microsoft that people were buying their software because it
| was good are pretty self-serving.” The BBC didn’t run the rest of what I said
| about Microsoft’s success, probably because they were looking to find someone
| to set up opposite Bill. Fine. These days we have blogs, so here’s my
| unfiltered side of the story.
|
| [...]
|
| But it doesn’t mean that the great Gates fortune was acquired in an entirely
| fair way or that Bill should be held up uncritically as a model of a
| successful businessman for doing so. To do so is to rewrite history and
| endorse a way of doing business which is harmful both to consumers and
| markets
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http://blog.kapor.com/?p=85

The BBC, Gates and revisionism

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| What was appalling about the programme was the lack of any apparent
| preparation on the part of the interviewer, Fiona Bruce. Gates was able to
| paint a wonderful revisionist picture of the past and Ballmer actually got
| away with describing Microsoft as an ethical company.
|
| It is fitting that the BBC decided to feature Gates on its Money programme
| and not on its Technology programme; after all, Microsoft is first and
| foremost a marketing company. Technology comes a distant second.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18937/1148/

BBC in covering technology badly shocker.

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| His piece reads like he’s giving Linux a thorough test. If this was his
| intention, then using the EeePC was a big mistake. However, the fact the WiFi
| didn’t work in Ubuntu? Very valid and annoying, which is why I still
| recommend looking up Linux compatibility before making the jump. I guess if
| this chap had written this anywhere else, I could forgive elements of it. But
| having pride of place on the BBC website, it is very damaging to Linux’s
| reputation and misleading to the public. It’s not a review, or look at
| Linux - it’s a blog of one man’s struggle to make a device (yes, the EeePC is
| a device) do something it shouldn’t. I’m sure if they had enabled comments on
| the piece - there would be some angry comments there at the moment. Sigh.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/andrewm/2008/09/08/bbc-in-covering-techn...

Execs & Accounts UK and EU: WPP, Microsoft, BBC Worldwide

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| Chris Dobson, Microsoft's VP for its UK Online Service Group, is leaving the
| company. Dobson is believed to be joining BBC Worldwide in a senior role. He
| joined Microsoft in 2001 following positions at Zenith and MTV Networks.
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http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3630709

BBC set to name Erik Huggers as Ashley Highfield's successor

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| The BBC is expected to confirm that former Microsoft executive Erik Huggers
| is to replace Ashley Highfield as the new BBC director of future media and
| technology as early as today.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/15/bbc.digitalmedia?gusrc=rs...

Bill Gates and the importance of source code

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| I don’t think the producers of the show realised the significance of this
| admission, since they quickly cut to another segment. Reading between the
| lines, Gates is essentially confessing that he would not have progressed had
| he and Paul Allen not found the source code. Without this knowledge, and
| without this opportunity to understand and experiment with how the internals
| of a computer worked, Gates and Allen would have been severely constrained in
| their ability to found a software company and develop products
|
| I would go so far as to say that Microsoft owes its very existence to this
| access to source code.
|
| To anyone with a passing familiarity to how things worked back then, this
| comes as no surprise. Source code was expected to be free, and this in turn
| nurtured a generation of computer hackers. But whereas Richard Stallman saw
| the amazing potential of this freedom and wanted to preserve it for all, Bill
| Gates appears to have perceived it as an advantage for himself that he must
| deny to others.
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http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/06/22/bill-gates-and-the-importan...

Related:

BBC pinches hot new columnist from Microsoft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/bill_gates_bbc_secrets/

Beeb slammed for 'fawning' to Bill Gates

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| BBC viewers have flooded the corporation with complaints over how it
| covered the launch of Microsoft Vista earlier this week.
|
| In one cringingly servile interview worthy of Uriah Heep, the
| Beeb's news presenter Hugh Edwards even thanked Gates at the
| end of it, presumably in appreciation at being allowed to give
| the Vole vast coverage for free.
|
| In other TV news items presenters excitedly explained how Vistac
| ould be obtained and installed - details courtesy of the BBC's
| website.
|
| But British viewers, currently forced to pay a £131.50 licence
| fee to maintain the BBC's "impartiality", were less than impressed.
|
| Scores got in touch to complain that so much was Auntie up Bill's
| bum that you could barely see her corset.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37411

http://slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias
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