Official Statement Objecting BBC/OFCOM Proposal

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 1, 2010 2:12 PM EDT
The Linux Foundation
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The Linux Foundation, on behalf of its members, would like to register its serious objections to the current BBC/OFCOM proposal, which would impose content management controls on new free-to-air high definition channels. The plan, which involves restrictively licensing the Huffman codes used in the electronic programme guide, would have a negative effect on open source applications and would distort the markets which have built up around those applications.

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