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"The Code Breakers" on BBC World

The BBC World service is airing a two-part documentary on how Free and Open Source software is helping the world, called The Code Breakers (more articles). I'm in the middle of watching the first part and it is reasonably fair and balanced. Each part is half-an-hour long. I highly recommend it to anybody with an interest in the future of computing. The two parts will air on BBC World at (Indian Standard Time):


  • Part One


    • Thursday 11 May - 1:00 AM

    • Thursday 11 May - 3:00 PM

    • Friday 12 May - 10:00 PM

    • Monday 15 May - 1:00 PM


  • Part Two


    • Thursday 18 May - 1:00 AM

    • Thursday 18 May - 3:00 PM

    • Friday 19 May - 10:00 PM

    • Monday 22 May - 1:00 PM


posted by Roshan Shariff @ 12:45 PM

2 Comments:

At 8:26 AM, May 11, 2006, Blogger Shashank Shekhar said...

It was nice, but nothing that we already didn't know. :-) I don't see any future trend of computing in it or the coming episodes, like you described in the mail.

 
At 10:23 AM, May 11, 2006, Blogger Roshan Shariff said...

True, nothing new for people like us, but a good introduction for those who're wondering about the whole "Free software" thing. Sadly enough, this is the vast majority of people.

One good thing is that it focussed at least a little on why Free-dom is inherently good for software. Given two pieces of software, of roughly equal features, the deciding factor should always be their Freedom. That in itself is a feature.

 

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