Ian,
the unfortunate fact is that open source is not above or beyond this
type of controversy.
ie who funds the developers?
who are they developing for?
in many cases developers:
have little or no understanding of a 'public' audience.
actively refrain from user testing.
encourage feature creep
design to impress their peers....
the list goes on,
in some sense consumerism at least gives the end user some authority.
as you may know, the web specifications created by W3C are far more
potent than the mere iplayer. The issues are similar though there are
more companies and corporations engaged in the project....
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
On 24 Oct 2007, at 17:23, Ian Forrester wrote:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071021231933899
Maybe of interest?
Mark Taylor: My first personal, emotional reaction was frankly, I was
stunned. And it's back to this 'Auntie' analogy. As I said before,
the perception of the BBC from childhood right up to adulthood is
'Everybody's Auntie'. And when you suddenly find your favorite Auntie
who has been a part of your life and has always told the truth, when
you suddenly find out that she's telling lies, conning money out of
people -- these are all topical issues in the UK press at the moment
-- and then finally, if you imagine if you walked into a room and
found your Auntie performing "favors" shall we say (laughter) with
shady characters who are constantly in trouble with the law, you'd
feel a little bit -- kind of a bit -- what's going on here? When we
started examining the issue and had a look into what was actually
going on with the iPlayer project, we found that actually there's a
smoking gun leading straight to Microsoft.
Ian Forrester
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