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

[andrew nightingale]

hannah d. wrote:
> 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.
Not the exact original article but has a link to it:

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



Andrew.



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