The BBC and open technology
I stumbled across this on the Dirac implementations page:
THE BBC AND OPEN TECHNOLOGY
The BBC has a long-standing commitment to open standards. The BBC has a legal obligation to “pay particular attention to the desirability of supporting actively in national and international forums the development of open standards.” Participating in and instigating Open Source projects is a valuable means of fulfilling this obligation, and also allows the BBC to make its technology freely available as a contribution to the wider community. This allows our audiences to obtain greater value from the research they fund. It also allows the community to make their own contributions to the project, which helps the technology to develop from experimental projects to usable products.
Yes, it does.
