BBC open source

The UK may have its faults, but it seems like we are really getting behind them in certain areas. High offerings of Web based TV content (Battlestar Galactica bittorrents are legal) and now we have the BBC Open Source program! Man, what will be next?

This site provides information about and links to BBC open source projects. It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. The site doesn’t cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself.

For the BBC, open source software development is an extension of our Public Service remit. Releasing open source software helps our audience get additional value from the work they’ve funded, and also get tools for free that they couldn’t get any other way. It also allows people outside the BBC to extend projects in such a way that may in future be used in the BBC. [Read the rest]