Brits: Help ensure Free Software access to BBC content!
The BBC is asking the "commercial sector, industry bodies, interests groups and BBC management" and — gasp — even "licence fee payers" (shouldn’t they put them first? After all, it’s where a bunch of their money comes from) for input on how they’d like new BBC services to be implemented. One of those services would be to make all (or at least most) BBC material online a week after it’s been broadcast.
In a rather clunky process, you can go to the BBC Trust’s website, download a PDF with some proposed questions and let them know what you think. One item is especially worth considering:
"How important is it that the proposed seven-day catch-up service over the internet is available to consumers who are not using Microsoft software?"
Rather important, I should say. It’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time. At’em, me hearties! Make the BBC support open standards!
via BoingBoing