FOSS documentary on BBC World 100
Zoxed writes ""A two-part documentary, 'The Code Breakers' will be aired on BBC World TV starting on 10 May 2006. Code Breakers investigates how poor countries are using FOSS applications for development, and includes stories and interviews from around the world."
The first part is screening tonight on BBC World."
Re:Code Breakers = Breaking or Broken Code? (Score:5, Interesting)
At first I thought it was a documentary about Bletchley Park [wikipedia.org], where the Allies broke the German Enigma cipher.
Perhaps they are refering to the "code" of buying all your software from Microsoft, which certainly could use some breaking if not downright thrashing.
Re:They said what? (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/l
UK don't get BBC World?... (Score:5, Interesting)
A little ironic don't you think... Kind of like the yanks not getting something created by ABC or Fox but letting the rest of the world have it.
Re:UK don't get BBC World?... (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm absolutely certain of it. The first three Web sites I hit for international news are:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ [timesonline.co.uk]
http://news.google.com/ [google.com]
Tremendously different slant on many issues than staying with US domestic news. Also some very clearcut cases of biased reporting in US media (not just the horrible Fox News). In fact, after a few years of the first two (Google News is comparatively new, of course) I can't *stand* domestic US 'news' services. But then I was never into pot-bellied pigs, either.
Re:UK don't get BBC World?... (Score:2, Interesting)
BBC World is a commercial channel, funded and run completely seperatly from the normal BBC news (although staff are shared, BBC World pay for this). The BBC charter doesn't allow it to be broadcast in the UK.
Of course the competition argue that the license fee subsidises BBC World, which it arguably does.
You're not missing much, besides it is available in the UK, point you sat dish to an appropiate satelite.