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

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 02 November 2007 11:35:10 Roger Beaumont wrote:
> 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.
>
So how do we get this talked about in the general press?  Publicity is the 
only thing that will make them listen.  (I'm 332, and it's 339 so far.)

Anne
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Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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