Are the BBC allowed to charge for material such as this? I thought it was
not allowed to develop commercially.
I am sure the commercial arm of the BBC is called BEEB.
Maybe wrong, but something stirs in the back of my head!
Regards
Gareth Edmondson
ICT Teacher
Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Shute
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:25:36AM +0100, Christopher wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ian Lynch wrote:
There is a lot of controversy at present because the BBC propose to put £150m into content development with free access for schools.
The mani problem I see is that the BBC will probably only produce material that will run in IE under Windows, it will use ActiveX and Flash 7 and similar things, so we won't be able to use it.
All the BBC sites that I have come across seem to run on Solaris which suggests some hope on this front and I've always found their sites to be OK on Linux/BSD. We just have to stay vigilant & moan if Flash and other such garbage starts making a regular appearance. I can't imagine they'll migrate to IIS in any kind of hurry, although stranger things have happened.
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