I certainly dont know it costs nothing to make it available to more people.
I doubt that is true. Heck, opening ANY site up to tens or hundreds or thousands more people is BOUND to cost significantly more. And I dont have any idea of the backend/management required to allow more people in, to administer more people, to grade the results, etc. I do know that a shoestring budget can easily be snapped by too much growth too soon. I also know that a lot of these kind of BBC initiatives (heck, even their "responsive" project was only a couple of devs) are skunkwork kind of projects, many of which never see the light of day. To me this is a nifty idea. Let's not rock its boat before we see if it can float first. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Except we all know it costs nothing to make that program available to more > people over the internet. > Nothing. > > It won't skyrocket bandwidth costs etc. , there was some research done on > this for digital distribution channels when this was raised as a reason > more content was not made available. > > What prevents it is artificial , beurecracy and in some instances price > gouging and exploitation (perhaps not in this instance). > > On 22 October 2014 09:54, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > iirc, the BBC is a government/tax funded media organization. > > > > so it is less like US corporations limiting access by region, than it > would > > be the US government limiting access to taxpayers. > > > > which we also do quite a bit. > > > > I expect that eventually, the BBC will open up that program, but I also > can > > see that opening it up will incur additional hard-money costs, which may > > not be in their charter or limited budget for this kind of thing. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
