[Sussex] BBC Click

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 19:15:51 UTC 2007


Desmond Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Heh. I've been working for the BBC (although my contract ends June 
>> 30). They take open source seriously where I've been working.
> Isn't it something to do with government policy? they are brainwashed 
> by the advertising and have unlimited funds to throw at Microsoft.
Without getting into Non-Disclosure Agreement material, I can happily 
say that I was hired there to do Linux migration of development services 
into production environments. So, this is certainly not absolutely the 
case. I think I can also say, from experience with other large 
organizations, that migrating to a Linux environment is often limited by 
core applications that are simply not available in a robust fashion in 
the Linux world, at least not yet.

> I am aware that the BBC do use Solaris, Linux and Mac and as an 
> organisation seem not to be fond of Microsoft but are required by 
> their Masters (TBand his merry men) to promote the junk.
I have no way to address this. What leads you to this conclusion? There 
are certainly difficulties in implementing DRM, for example, in the 
non-Microsoft world, which has caused public issues for Iplayer.

> Incidentally with very little exception the kids are well entertained 
> with the games on the BBC site and this using Linux, of course, now 
> would I encourage a 3 year old to use Windows? - No problem with real 
> computers, they soon show their parents how to do it!
My 6 year old likes the flash games. I admittedly use a Windows box at 
home for games and Quicken use, and dual-boot my laptop.





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