[cumbria_lug] 4oD

[Malcolm Logan]

Morning All,

I got sick of watching Just Shoot Me before work this morning and I thought
I'd spend the time seeing if I could watch Derren Brown on 4oD.

I was not suprised to find that the site requires the ubiquitous XP, IE,
Media Player combo... I was surprised that there was no Firefox support...
anyway Long Story Short I emailed channel4 using the link from their help
page and I thought some of you may be interested to read it or do the same.

I must say it's never bothered me in the past (I do actually own and use XP
sometimes), but I am getting really pee'd off at organisations increasingly
not recognising the open source/linux/non MS communities when building 'web
services'...

Morning Rant Over!

M


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Dear Sir/Madam,

Whilst I applaud the introduction of 4oD and would love to start using the
service I am unable to do so.

Your minimum system requirements include Windows XP and Internet Explorer
aswell as Windows Media Player.

Whilst designing your service around these Microsoft core components does
not surprise me, it does however exclude me and other users of operating
systems such as Linux and MacOSX, both of which I use. Furthermore it
excludes all users of the internet browser Firefox. This however does
surprise me as Firefox has rapidly grown in use across all operating
systems.

Lastly, I am disapointed that a 'design focused' company such as channel4
who are still regarded as being at the fore front of television and a strong
force culturally have not endorsed the open source community and made
services such as 4oD available to them. I expect this from the BEEB but not
you guys!

I hope this email reaches the eyes of some one who cares and has an
influence. If it does I would appreciate a brief response. I will strongly
encourage my local linux community to check out 4oD!

Thank you for taking the time to read this email.

Malcolm Logan

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