Comedy at the British Open Source Consortium

"The BBC had initially chosen to concentrate on a Windows-based system as it is the world's dominant operating system...

"This is unacceptable to the British Open Source Consortium. Supporting Windows first gives Windows an unfair advantage, even though every company in existence, including web-oriented properties such as Google and Yahoo, release high-end features (read: features that need more than is possible with HTML/CSS/Javascript) on Windows first..."

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