[Lancaster] Fw: [lugmaster] Re: [Fsfe-uk] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to sayyou use BBC web site!

[Mark Williams]

Petition re. BBC iplayer and the BBC's Linux user-base :-

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:06:44 +0000
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk>
To: lugmaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [lugmaster] Re: [Fsfe-uk] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you
use BBC web site!


Hi,

Ashley Highfield, head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit, is
quoted:


http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-
bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951

    "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as
    our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and
    around 400 to 600 are Linux users."

Tom Chance has posted news of a petition to FSFE-UK, see below.

Cheers,


Ralph.

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To: london at lists.greenparty.org.uk, fsfe-uk at gnu.org
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:49:15 +0000
From: Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>
Message-ID: <5929a53b6c2c6514d68d6686dac25b0f at acrewoods.net>
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

Hello there,

The BBC's head of technology is claiming that only about 400-600 people
use GNU/Linux to access the BBC, as part of their PR excercise glossing
over how badly they've got it wrong with their M$-only iPlayer (see
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1721229 and for
background see
http://tom.acrewoods.net/blog/2007/aug/bbc-corrupted-iplayer-protests-uk).

If you've used GNU/Linux to access the beeb, can you sign the petition
below? Please circulate widely.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc

Kind regards,
Tom

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