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On Tuesday 11 November 2008 20:25, Matthew Browning wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just seen this on Digital Spy... > > > > http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a135199/ashley-highfield-quits-p > >roject-kangaroo.html > > > > It seems that Ashley Highfield (yes the guy who was at the Beeb and > > involved with the iPlayer debarcle... > > Debacle? > > > Call my cynical... > > [snip] > > > Of course it would still be better if they used something like Dirac. > > Still at least the BBC are slowly changing. I bet in the Beeb it's a > > case of us (the techies, engineers etc) and them (the Mac loving > > media-tards). > > It's not like that. I'd be happy to talk through the technologies we > are using and the reasons for them at a future meet if people are > interested. The main reason given for using proprietary software was so DRM could be used to protect non Beeb content. Now a lot of the Beeb seems to be saying that they're not putting up other peoples content for the Iplayer... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html