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Listed below are comments made by Dave Crossland between Wednesday, 13th August 2008 and Tuesday, 19th August 2008.

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New ways of linking 1:07pm on 19 Aug 2008 "For the trial we're linking to our own content as well as relevant
external sources, including Wikipedia articles, YouTube and Flickr
content. We wanted to include these sources because they promote
sharing of content"

What else could the BBC do to promote sharing of content? License some
of the work for which it is the sole copyright holder as... sharable?
Per chance?
Open Industry Standards For Audio & Video On The Web 12:52pm on 13 Aug 2008 It seems to me that Erik doesn't actually understand what an 'open standard' really is.

AAC and H264 are patent encumbered, so they are not truely open standards. They are merely popular, and not aligned with any one big organisation in partcular, but they are only available to large organisations who ran afford the unreasonable and discriminatory patent licenses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#Patents explains well this issue. Especially interesting is this quote: "many governments (including the Danish, French and Spanish governments singly and the EU collectively) specifically affirmed that "open standards" required royalty-free [patent] licenses."

When will the BBC specifically affirm that "open standards" at the BBC means royalty-free patent licenses?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#File_formats does not list AAC/H264, but it does list some codecs that the BBC shamefully ignores.

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