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

[hannah d.]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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.)

Has anyone got a reference to where Ashley Highfield actually says
this? Having signed the petition I did a quick google to try and 
find the source and couldn't.

H.
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Hannah Dee. Research Fellow, Cognitive Vision, University of Leeds.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/hannah