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BBC Open Source launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-party-beeb dept.

Elphin writes "The BBC today launched their BBC Open Source website, providing a home for projects such as their video codec dirac , TV-Anytime Java API and Kamaelia network testbed."

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  1. Apache Modules too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like they have also released the BBC 'programming language'

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/apache/

    Seems like extensions to mod_include to add more logic.

    Good Stuff

  2. If only they would publicize.. by drspliff · · Score: 5, Informative

    If only they would publicize more of the open-source projects they've been doing in order to spur more development from people who would actually benifit from them.

    Take for example the Betsie perl script (which the BBC use extensively on their websites, it's an open-source cgi script which can be used to translate pages on-the-fly into a text-only mode. This has been very helpful for me and for a suprisingly large number of other web developers trying to tackle the issue of accessablity.

    If they keep on going in this direction with opening up more projects and providing more APIs for developers to use, then I can really see in maybe as short as 2 years down the line it could be actually be worthwile to pay for that damn TV license.