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From: "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050  support
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:22:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <seae44a4.027@mail-01.med.umich.edu> (raw)



>>> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 04/29/03 09:18AM >>>
> > On Maw, 2003-04-29 at 14:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > therefore different regulations exist in many other countries.
> > In the UK, for instance, one has to purchase a license to
> > use a receiver (you know, some Sony Walkman). 

> Wrong. You need a license to receive terrestrial TV but that is
> rather different and relates to both cultural and historical tax
> differences in philosophy between the US and UK.

<snip>
> Alan

And the reason is not repression, it is that the BBC is publicly funded. The licence
fee is what pays for the BBC. And produces programming infinitely better that the
total crap we get here in the US.

Nik




             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-29 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-29 15:22 Nicholas Berry [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-01 13:35 Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support Martin List-Petersen
2003-05-01 13:22 bas.mevissen
2003-04-29 16:58 harry
2003-04-29 21:19 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-04-29 12:51 bas.mevissen
2003-04-29 14:40 ` Stuffed Crust
2003-05-01 11:01   ` David S. Miller
2003-04-29 12:28 bas.mevissen
2003-04-29 12:58 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-04-29  6:16 Martin List-Petersen
2003-04-29 11:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-04-29 11:38   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-29 12:12     ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-04-29 12:27       ` Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
2003-04-29 13:26       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-04-29 13:18         ` Alan Cox
2003-04-29 14:45           ` Stuffed Crust
2003-04-29 13:48         ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-04-29 13:28   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-28 15:53 bas.mevissen

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