[ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org>:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 22:06, red <Rik_Boland at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> To follow on with a thought from Paul.
>>
>> No 10 website has a place where you can put a petition up for the
>> government to read and others can sign it.
>>
>> As the BBC is a publicly funded organization and it is answerable to the
>> folk of this country or them whom watch any form of T.V?
>
> It probably makes more sense to start by contacting people at the BBC,
> or the BBC Trust. If nothing else then it raises internal BBC
> awareness that they should be thinking about this.
>
> I wonder what the expense difference is between providing a
> linux/cross-platform CBBC game, compared to getting a Microsoft-only
> one made.

I'm not sure that's the point.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/highfield_quits_kangaroo/

Ashley Highfield (Ex-BBC Iplayer boss) now works for MS.  I seem to  
recall that the latest appointee of the BBC's media division is an ex  
MS UK employee.

If you use Flash (or AIR which seems to run perfectly on Ubuntu for  
iPlayer and Google Analytics) then cross-platform gaming should be easy.

Alternatively, look at some of the major 1st person shooters, most of  
them now run on Linux without too much effort as native applications,  
not using WINE.

If all else fails, pay the $25 and get a copy of x-over.  It's much  
better than wine at running a load of software!

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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