Hi Chris, > Encouraging response from the PM's Office [1] to the petition (now > closed): > > "The BBC Trust made it a condition [...] that the iPlayer is available > to users of a range of operating systems, and [...] will ensure that > the BBC meets this demand as soon as possible. They will measure the > BBC's progress on this every six months and publish the findings." > > Not sure where the findings will be published though.
I thought this was poor response, with the Government doing nothing more than stating the Trust's pre-petition stance? Either way, if the Beeb intend to widen the range of OS it runs on then they presumably have a plan. Have they publicised any bits of that, e.g. what third-party bits of software have they commissioned be ported, what other bits are they relying on the third-party to decide to port and have no direct control over whether that happens, what's the current rough estimates for these. Given it apparently uses[1] Kontiki's `keep consuming bandwidth after you've quit' KService[2], does anyone know if that's already available on non-Windows platforms? 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergrated_Media_Player 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontiki Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk