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PM placates Brits on BBC player ports
It's no doubt that the UK's Mac faithful were strong among the 16,000 who signed an online petition asking for an open-source BBC iPlayer.
A bit of history for the non-Brits: The iPlayer is the BBC's on-demand video player which, ironically, is only available for Windows XP. This has, of course, ticked off everyone from Linux vendors to Mac users to open source activists.
Now, it appears as if Prime Minister Gordon Brown will heed the petition and lean on the BBC's governing body to open up the iPlayer.
Brown was quoted as saying: "The BBC Trust made it a condition of approval for the BBC's on-demand services that the iPlayer is available to users of a range of operating systems, and has given a commitment that it will ensure that the BBC meets this demand as soon as possible."
For its part, the BBC has promised a Vista port by the end of the year and said that it is working on a Mac version, though no ETA has been given.
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