> > Now I'm not saying open source people write shoddy software > > that would > > reflect badly on the BBC, although if we're fair and > > honest... well > > some do. > It's not really an 'open source' thing. it's just 'third > parties'. it so happens that large commercial entities have a > route to gain the approval you talk about, and open source > developers don't.
Of course it's not. However it's important to note that everything I say can equally be applied to non-open source products. > > There are people in the BBC who would love to let you do more with > > iPlayer. And there are people in the BBC who are concerned about > > people doing that. Cos how do you tell someone that the buggy app > > they've just used isn't actually by the BBC and that it's not the > > BBC's fault that it sucks? It's the BBC content after all... [1] > and yet the corporation copes with this very scenario in the > magical world of actual broadcast reception (where it doesn't > have the _ability_ to enforce the sorts of restrictions > applied here [FVHD excepted], and so doesn't bother wasting > money trying). No it doesn't. But lets imagine that the UK TV system was being designed right now... What do you think a popular request would be? - 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/
