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2007 07 12

BBC Snubbed Open Source, South Africa 'Rejects' Petitions for Real Open Standards

BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes

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. [...] Before the trust got in touch on Wednesday, OSC CEO Rick Timmis said: "Everything we've done in the trust's direction has fallen on deaf ears. They've completely ignored us."

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Open Tuesday addresses document standards

As Bailey emphasised, the issue at stake is not one of fighting against Microsoft, but rather fighting for the rights of the user to be able to access documents without them becoming obsolete. Among those attendees were some other members of the committee and something of a strategy meeting developed, with ideas being shared as to how best to obtain community input. What emerged was that bombarding the SABS with petitions would not benefit the cause and would merely further irritate those involved.

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