BBC denies the Open Source community

The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission.

The accusations against the BBC have been made by advocacy group the Open Source Consortium (OSC).

They argue that the iPlayer will force people to use and purchase Microsoft products because it will initially only work on Microsoft Windows computers. This would give the software company an unfair advantage and would be uncompetitive, they say.

BBC denies the Open Source community.