[SC.LUG] [Fwd: Government response to petition 'iplayer']

Matthew Tolley matthew at matthewtolley.com
Fri Sep 7 11:43:19 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 17:26 +0100, Roger Gibson wrote:
> Sounds good, but the sting is in the tail.  'They' will check every
> six months to see what is happening.  How many six months will have to
> elapse before anything is done?
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- 
>                           Subject: 
> Government response to petition
> 'iplayer'
>                              Date: 
> Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:23:50 +0000
>                              From: 
> 10 Downing Street
> <number10 at petitions.pm.gov.uk>
>                                To: 
> e-petition signatories
> <number10 at petitions.pm.gov.uk>
> 
> 
> You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "prevent the
> BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to
> Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for
> other operating systems also."
> 
> The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view
> it here: 
> 
> http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp


As a co-signer I got the email from Number 10 and interpreted the answer
as good news - i.e. the BBC will maintain cross-platform availability of
its online content. If they're reviewing it every 6 months I guess that
means we just have to make sure as many people as possible access BBC
content online using linux so that it's taken more seriously. 

Matthew




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