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First off we talking about a 'public' service here. The BBC is funded by public money (political) and is being accused of not fulfilling its charter for equal access for all (political).

Whilst the BBC needs to get 'best value' they must service the demands of the public not be in the business of identifying market segments to commercially exploit.

Secondly, if greasing palms is the only way for proprietary technologists to win government contracts then come the revolution!
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This  dogStar5000 | 07/16/07
Public Broadcasting  dogStar5000 | 07/16/07
The BBC  mrjonno | 07/16/07
Incorrect presumption  russell@... | 07/16/07
Bass Ackwards  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/16/07
Does Flash  mdemuth | 07/16/07
BBC does not need DRM, the content is freely viewable. It is rather easy to  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
You should read up before commenting  mdemuth | 07/16/07
Well, I suppose, but, then the content owners will be suing the snot out of  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Also, I am not sure that DRM is required here. They freely broadcast the  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
In a word,  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/16/07
BBC is NOT taxpayer funded.  colinmeister | 07/17/07
Incumbent businesses make business political  russell@... | 07/16/07
Incumbent is an interesting term  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 07/16/07
Well, at least outside of the US there would be huge advantages to  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Well, duh.  frgough | 07/16/07
Not quit that simple. MS is willing to pay billions if necessary to make  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Let me guess...  dogStar5000 | 07/17/07
I don't think MS would be comfortable being called "socialist"  russell@... | 07/17/07
DRM is compulsory for any video distribution  mrjonno | 07/16/07
Actually, all of what the BBC creates is free content, there is no reason  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Disagree.  russell@... | 07/17/07
There is NO way out. Microsoft has billions pouring in every month for  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Microsoft reactive.  Anton Philidor | 07/16/07
No, the open standards do NOT exclude Microsoft, they just INCLUDE  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Microsoft tends to bend standards rather than abide by them.  B.O.F.H. | 07/16/07
Standards a different, related issue.  Anton Philidor | 07/16/07
No, the standards do NOT exclude Microsoft. They are also welcome to  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07
Also, read here to see one of the reasons that MS is desperate to create  DonnieBoy | 07/16/07

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