Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:26 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> BBC Director General grilled by MPs on iPlayer
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| 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.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/01/10/bbc-director-general-grilled-by-mps-on-iplayer/
>>>
>>> What took them so long? The 'smoking guns' have been out there for ages.
>>>
>>
>> We know. The £20 million was actually "more than £20 million". Well,
>> £21 million is more, but so is £100 million, or £1,000 million.
>>
>> The worst bit was the DG actually lying about the capabilities of the
>> Silverlight/iPlayer to an MP.
>>
>> Cue Kier to deny everything, or perhaps not, now that the DG is
>> beginning to admit it.
>
> Two separate and independent sources said it was well over 100 million. I think
> the BBC is now trying to bend the definitions as it came up with a new figures
> that those responsible spit out in their blog (and mine) while attempting to
> remain consistent wrt the numbers. They used a subset of the whole to change
> the figure for all I can tell. By the way, the BBC published an article
> praising (its own) iPlayer yesterday. It boasted one million users (none of
> whom uses a Mac of Linux).
Yuk, they're actually *boasting* about pushing Microsoft's software for
them? Surely that must get somebody into court?
They are bound to try to hide the cost, it's far too embarassing for
them.
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