License question

[Peter S Kirk]

On 2 Sep 2016 at 12:23, Larry Yaeger Larry Yaeger <lsy at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 11:13 AM, michael norman <michaeltnorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The licence fee is cheap.
> 
> I so sincerely wish I could pay the license fee.  I'm an unwilling moocher from the US that would joyfully be a
> subscriber if they would only let me.  I've been watching British telly since it was radio.  I dearly love the Goons. 
> Actually met Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, at a do in Brighton.  And I could go on for pages and pages of the
> British programming I've enjoyed over the years.  I buy DVDs over here.  I've bought tons of PAL VHS tapes and Region 2
> DVDs in London over the 40+ years I've been visiting as often as possible, which required buying multi-standard
> players.  I would and do happily "vote with my dollars" for Auntie Beeb, and agree she is the best single source of
> television programming on the planet.  I've spent a lot of time in London, including a year on sabbatical, but I've
> never managed to actually move there.  Anybody need a strong computer programmer on that side of the pond? :)
> 
> That said, I find the pejorative, condescending tone of some posters about non-subscribers offensive.  It's corporate
> and political bureaucracy that prevents me from paying for my BBC programming, not anything I have control over.  And
> if it bothers you that I watch this brilliant programming, well good.  Suffer.  You're just being a prig, and you
> deserve the angst.  That's my 2p.
> 
> - larryy

Good post.

Peter