License question

[John Bingham]

I read the original post: "Beeb is asking if I have a license now, sigh".

My first thought was that this prevented GiP, and hence my script, from 
working, so I checked it out (on Linux) and didn't find a problem.

I thus deduced that the concern was probably from someone who didn't 
have a license.  Of course, I don't know this to be true and apologise 
if my assumption was incorrect.

My second paragraph was a comment on a general problem in our society: 
people wanting something for nothing.

Clearly the BBC, in my opinion the best broadcaster in the world, needs 
funding.  It could be by advertising; it could be via direct government 
funding.  In either case, the funders could exert pressure on the way 
their money is spent.  The license fee is less direct and goes some way 
to helping the BBC to maintain its independence.  The fact that some 
people have used the service without paying isn't right and this attempt 
to tighten up license fee payment is to be supported.

On 02/09/16 11:40, artisticforge . wrote:
> hello
>
> would you expand on exactly what you mean. I do not "get" what you are
> trying to say.
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:37 AM, John Bingham <john at ukmail.org> wrote:
>> One presumes not.
>>
>> It's a sad fact that there are a lot of people who want to profit from those
>> of us that pay our dues.  Not just in this group.
>>
>>
>> On 02/09/16 09:01, Jonathan H wrote:
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem to be a particularly complicated question:
>>>
>>> "Do you have a license fee"?
>>>
>>> If you do and you have paid for the service you are about to use, then
>>> answer "Yes".
>>>
>>> If you do not have a license, then answer "No".
>>>
>>> It doesn't seem particularly complicated to me.
>>>
>>> On 2 September 2016 at 07:40, The Kernel <thekernel at su2root.ukfsn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Beeb is asking if I have a license now, sigh
>>>>
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