____/ Roy Schestowitz on Friday 18 January 2008 02:48 : \____
> BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer
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> | During the meeting there is discussion of iPlayer’s total cost to the
> | licence fee-payer - the BBC representatives are unable to give a figure,
> | but start the bidding at £20m, excluding staff costs. Thomson gives
> | incorrect information - that Mac and Linux versions of iPlayer have the
> | same functionality as Windows versions - and has to change his evidence at
> | the end. Perhaps it was this confusion that prompted Dr John Pugh MP to
> | follow up the encounter with a letter direct to Mark Thomson today
> | discussing platform neutrality in greater detail. A copy of this letter has
> | been passed to the Open Rights Group.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/
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Little update:
Full transcripts of the grilling will soon be added to Groklaw, followed by
hundreds of angry comments from a sophisticated 'mob'. This will be fun.
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