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Submission + - Why is the iPlayer a multi million pound disaster? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by AnotherDaveB on Friday November 23, 2007 @04:22AM

AnotherDaveB writes: The story of the BBC's iPlayer is of a multi-million pound failure that took years to complete, and was designed for a world that never arrived. More was spent on the project than many Silicon Valley startups ever burn through, but only now can we begin to piece together how this disaster unfolded.

Submission + - BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes

Submitted by AnotherDaveB on Thursday July 12, 2007 @06:27AM

AnotherDaveB writes: The BBC Trust has asked to meet 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 (OSC) 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.

The Register has the story.

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