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BBC slammed for Microsoft lock-in

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vnunet.com; By Ian Williams
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The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has slammed the BBC over plans to lock online TV viewers into Microsoft products. The accusations come after the BBC announced that its new on-demand services will be limited to Microsoft Windows. A report from the BBC Trust said that services will be unavailable to consumers who do not use Microsoft software or have an up-to-date version of Windows.

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Comments (5)

and sometimes have had lots of supportive e-mails from multiple members of teams doing the work to implement things to various progressions up the chain with them telling me who to contact.

Made no difference. It's what really irks me considering they are are a public service broadcaster. Not really doing me much of a service. (And I pay my tv license fee!)
One thing I've always wondered about the TV license fee in the UK - how in the world do they administer it? Isn't there a high percentage of scofflaws over this?

Please note: those are very off-topic questions.
Oooh! Oooh! I know!

They use the same devices that the police use to see through walls to spot people growing pot in their homes.

Right?

I'm right, aren't I?
That's above and beyond counting antennas on top of houses, of course.
don't worry - with the microsoft-novell deal I trust microsoft to be thinking of us and that they will make sure that the open source zealots can see the bbc tv.

after the deal was all about interoperability wasn't it?

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