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Why was the original title changed? They aren't open sourcing anything today. They are planning to develop new tech which they might open source. But all this
by aeyes 2y ago
Why was the original title changed? They aren't open sourcing anything today.
They are planning to develop new tech which they might open source. But all this still has to be approved by the regulator and the government.
That said, I have seen some of the tech from the inside ~10 years ago. The ARD player was developed by a third party and there was no budget to bring this in house. Things might have changed but redoing everything just to open source it sounds like a waste of money.
- fweimer 2y agoThe original German article makes it clear it's only about the web front end and some ancillary services, not the video streaming service as such. The latter seems to be mostly Akamai-based.
- aeyes 2y agoExactly, that's why I wrote "the player" which is the most interesting tech. The rest of the system wasn't very interesting back in the day, just an off-the-shelf CMS and internal feeds to pull in all the content from the different channels automatically. Here is an old interview with the technical directors from back then explaining some of the internals: https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q1_Mediathek.pdf https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/trev_2010-Q1_Mediathek.p... The sites have changed quite a lot since then and they have added subscription content as well. Maybe they now have code which would be more interesting to open source.
- ancorevard 2y ago[flagged]
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoSigh. I know that dunking on the EU is increasingly a HN meme because most of you lot work for companies that feel threatened by governments with teeth, but “governments waste money!!!” in as much as it is an accurate stereotype is not localised to the EU by any means.
- TylerE 2y agoWhat does waste money even mean in these co text? That money will go right back into The economy (food, rent, entertainment, taxes, etc)