On 03/12/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/12/2007, Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't need the BBC to release it. > > Yeah, a lot of the comments on that blog post said similar things - > that notwithstanding it would be very helpful for the community if the > BBC shared the source. > > I should imagine that running a site the size of the BBC could > influence the engineering somewhat in way which would be > useful/interesting to study. > > We'll never know unless they free up the code. :)
open sourcing code will only take you so far: http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fails-at-the-internet/ "Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore the situation that has forced them to do this." - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
