Morning All,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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'...
<br><br>Morning Rant Over!<br><br>M <br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote"><br></span>Dear Sir/Madam,<br><br>Whilst I applaud the introduction of 4oD and would love to start using the service I am unable to do so.
<br><br>Your minimum system requirements include Windows XP and Internet Explorer aswell as Windows Media Player.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>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!
<br><br>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!<br><br>Thank you for taking the time to read this email.
<br><br>Malcolm Logan<br clear="all"><span class="sg"><br>-- <br>~~Zero Gravitas~~
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