My friend Brian Keeler mentioned that he has been playing a little bit of a video game called Silkroad. So I went to the game’s web site to find out what it is about. If I clicked any of the links on the page, the screen was replaced by:
[logo]
Web page of Silkroad Online is optimized under below condition.
Windows Operation Systems ( Microsoft Windows 9X/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 )
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and above.
Above, is the text on the page I landed when I tried to visit the web site using Firefox on Ubuntu OS. There are no links to the rest of the site. People running Linux (or Macs?) are not allowed to find out about the game? Optimized?
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Microsoft is exerting its dominance
Eegad. That’s nearly as bad as the BBC making programming available for download, but only if you use windoze media player (DRM protected content). I think after the petition with 20,000 plus signatures, maybe their working on a solution that appeals to the masses, but could be wrong.
Noel, hehe it is only a game (or so I hear), but that problem with BBC is much worse! I think we have (maybe past tense now) a similar issue with the CBC. It is the people’s content, right? Don’t our taxes (+ advertising) pay for the CBC to operate? Similarly with the BBC?