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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to raise the subject of the Microsoft BBC deal to parliment. More details
Submitted by John Lloyd – Deadline to sign up by: 03 July 2008 – Signatures: 579
The BBC has announced that its iPlayer due for release later this year will be based around proprietary Microsoft codecs and DRM and hence be neither open source or available to some operating systems. This has already been raised and criticized by the OSC (Open Source Consortium). More information can be found on the BBC website and on the open source consortium website. This goes against common sense and government or BBC policy to be open.
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