A whole load of cryptic stuff…
“It would be better that the government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism – that we live in fear and under a police state[...]“ Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5 Found [...]
“Critically though, I think the BBC can, and should, do more to support the Free and Open Source community” Ashley Highfield, Director, BBC Future Media & Technology
Most major web based developments of any scale these days work on the presumption that interoperablity, open standards, and platform neutrality are givens. It is not clear why the BBC design brief did not specify these requirements or if it did what technical problems – given the expertise available – hinder them being implemented. So [...]