[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 02 Jan, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:46:32AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> >    To a large extent you are preaching to the converted, since BBC research
> > department has been developing Open Source software, and a very high
> > proportion of BBC employees run Linux themselves.
> 
> Maybe the BBC technical people do, what about the journalists, programme makers, ... ?
> 
   Many are now independant contractors, not BBC employees. It is then down
to whoever hands out the contracts to specify how they should work. The BBC
can commission programmes, or purchase them ready-made, then discover that
the contractor has other agreements, perhaps even to supply similar material
to another organisation under a different set of conditions.
   Administration effort is already far greater than when almost everything
was done "in house", partly in finding suitable contractors that are
available to do the work, and partly in second-guessing requirements and
costs.

-- 
Chris Bell

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