pm.gov.uk — The UK Government have released a response to the online petition to prevent the BBC making the iPlayer Windows only. The government state that the "BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for the BBC's on-demand services that the iPlayer is available to users of a range of operating systems" and they will "measure the BBC's progress on this"
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welshieSep 7, 2007
One of these days, it should be possible for viewers based in the USA to buy a subscription to BBC broadcast content, advertisement free. I would suggest that the price of that subscription should be no less than US$270 per annum. It's already a mandatory subscription to any UK based television set owner at approximately that rate. (UK TV Licence is ?135 per annum)
sirhomerSep 7, 2007
Non-government organization? Is that what you British socialists call government organizations?
thomashaukSep 7, 2007
That won't work, It doesn't work with vista either
thomashaukSep 7, 2007
Infact they are not except for the way they are funded.
bruce89Sep 7, 2007
Not sure if the Ubuntu principle of nicking good things from other distributions and porting them to Python has to do with this.Perhaps you meant the GNU philosophy?
bruce89Sep 7, 2007
Whatever happened to Dirac anyway?
baz4096Sep 8, 2007
So why isn't everyone putting pressure on Microsoft to provide a linux/mac solution? Surely it's their DRM that's restricting iPlayer to windows only, so if they made their DRM work on Linux and OSX then there wouldn't be a problem.... well there'd be less of a problem...As a (big) customer of Microsoft shouldn't the BBC be able to leverage this?