On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:26:59 +0100, "Martin Belam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> <devils advocate>
<reality check> > Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money. Yes,delivering services to their whole userbase. > I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video > system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. If the market hasn't seen fit to deliver a cross platform solution, maybe they had to. Or maybe they had NotInventedHere syndrome :P > And the potential user base is, what, the >1% of people in the UK with > computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and > want to stream video of their local council meetings. No, that assumes this service *excludes* the people who run the dominant OS and media player. It doesn't. What it does is include them, and people who happen not to. So the potential user base is everyone in that area who wants to stream video of their council meetings Following your argument to its logical extreme would mean *not* providing acess to council meetings for people with physical movement problems, or who need council information in a non English form - because these, after all, don't make up the majority George PS hi martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
