> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christopher Woods > Sent: 02 August 2007 12:18 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] More iPlayer(/jam) protesting (plus > Sky+ comment @ Vijay)
> Well that's me told! Very interesting to have the thoughts of > someone who worked on Jam... sorry, some of us old jammers are kind of narky :) anyway, you have some other thoughts (which I think are more the general consensus from staff if the mailing list was anything to go by) > The reason I thought it was a bad move to make at the time > was that it seemed that all of a sudden, the BBC was having > to vow to a sudden burst of criticism from other companies, > which seemed a little orchestrated, I can see why one might have had that impression. It was certainly one I shared. I also thought it looked bad for the beeb to bow to commercial pressure like that. but to my mind it wasn't a battle to fight, and we stood some chance of losing it even if we had right entirely on our side. >and given that they'd > invested so much time and expense it was frustrating both for > me as a user and for the people who worked on it to see it > just get shelved. yeah, I found this an interesting issue, because I wonder at what point you're just throwing good money after bad. Should we have persisted even when politics, technology, and (IMHO) content had collaborated to ensure we would be wasting even more money on something that might still be taken down or might not be any good? to my mind, nowhere near that amount of money would have been wasted had the project been run intelligently from the start. - 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/
