Re: Future BBC Online Services

Steve Firth <%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Graham Murray wrote:
macerata <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The issue faced by the BBC is that we try to provide these facilities
initially to the most popular operating system, which is Microsoft.
Offering services to other Operating systems inevitably means an
increased cost to Licence Fee payers.

So are they saying that it inevitably costs more to provide the
facilities in a format which is compatible with all operating systems
than to only provide them in a format usable by Windows?

No, they are saying that they are a bunch of incompetent fuckwits who
don't recognise the meaning of the word "standard". If the BBC had been
staffed by similar idiots in the 1960s then colour TV would only have
worked for the owners of GEC Televisions.

Shudders at the memory of having to repair GEC televisions from the
sixties. But if they'd done that then GEC might still be in business and
there might still be a UK electronics industry :)

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