Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BBC Petition

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Author: Dominic Cleal
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BBC Petition
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:45:04 +0000, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Quote "The BBC plans to launch an on-demand tv service which uses
> software that will only be available to Windows users. The BBC should
> not be allowed to show commercial bias in this way, or to exclude
> certain groups of the population from using its services. The BBC say
> that they provide 'services for everyone, free of commercial
> interests and political bias'. Locking the new service's users into
> Microsoft Windows whilst ignoring those members of society who use
> other operating systems should does not fit in with the BBC's ethos
> and should not be allowed.


If you're interested in this subject, you may want to listen to a
recent podcast that BBC Backstage did:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/02/bbc_backstage_p_1.html

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Dominic Cleal
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