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BBC Trust Will Hear iPlayer Openness Complaints

Posted by kdawson on from the tv-without-internet-explorer dept.

AnotherDaveB writes with a Register story reporting that the BBC Trust has asked to meet with open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on-demand broadband TV service, iPlayer. The development came less than 48 hours after a meeting between the Open Source Consortium and regulators at Ofcom on Tuesday. Officials agreed to press the Trust, the BBC's governing body, to meet the OSC. The consortium received an invitation on Wednesday afternoon.

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  1. Openness Complaints by ThisIsWhyImHot · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girlfriend is constantly making these and I've noticed that the best way to adress them is to accuse her of using windows.

    1. Re:Openness Complaints by that+IT+girl · · Score: 2, Funny

      Silly...everybody knows slashdotters don't have girlfriends.
      Pfft.

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    2. Re:Openness Complaints by Source+Quench · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is her name Anna?

  2. This revolution will not be televised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This revolution will not be televised on my Linux computers. But maybe the effects will be.

  3. Re:Thanks a bunch Rupert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "there is evidence that certain aspects of the proposals may have a negative effect on investment in similar commercial services which would not be in the long-term public interest."
     
    Is it only me, or are other people picturing Sir Humphrey Appleby saying that sentence?