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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. Re:Three cheers! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What inspired the British Broadcasting Corporation to suddenly leap into the software programming foray? Are they hoping to build some sort of new service out of all of this, or is it just going to end up as a bunch of disconnected apps?

    Q: What inspired Bell Labs to create Multics/Unix?
    A: Because they needed it.

    BBC has been pushing more and more toward internet-based content. While they've been struggling with legal issues, it is becoming more and more clear that they are extremely serious about this and not just blowing smoke up everyone's hind quarters.

    Put this stuff together:

    1. A highly competitive streaming video codec.
    2. A TV Listings lookup API.
    3. A distributed/P2P sharing API.

    While these could go together into a few different gizmos, it seems that they are all targetting the concept of showing television over the internet. Oh, that will be a happy day. I might even pay the British TV Tax just to get Dr. Who! ;-)

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