[Wylug-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

Roger Beaumont roger.bea at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Nov 2 11:36:36 GMT 2007


Phil Driscoll wrote:
> The BBC's head of technology, Ashley Highfield, in making excuses for the 
> iPlayer, claims that only 400-600 people access the BBC website using Linux! 
> Since I can probably name over 100 of those people, I'm sure he's very very 
> wrong. One of the FSFE guy's has set up a petition to help assess how wrong 
> he is. If you access www.bbc.co.uk using GNU/Linux, please sign up.
> 
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc
> 
> My signature is number 242, so about half of the audience has signed up 
> already :)

Mine was 275 (13 more there now, while I type this) - and while I 
noticed 1 duplicate, I also noticed I wasn't the only one claiming 
more than a single person in the family.

Roger




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