[SWLUG] BBC's "iPlayer"

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, James Edgeworth wrote:

> In all honesty though, I see their point. As a business, you want your
> product to reach as many people as possible - their initial thought in
> this case would be to cater for Windows, especially if MS have done
> their not exactly uncommon handshakes to give them the
> priority/monopoly. I dont know whether BBC have ever said that they will
> not be providing to Linux.

Well of course, supporting Windows makes business sense.  But the BBC is 
not really a business in the strictest sense since it is licence funded 
and has a charter which requires that it doesn't restrict content too 
much...

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