Re: [Fsfe-uk] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Ian Lynch]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:49 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> The BBC's head of technology is claiming that only about 400-600 people use
> GNU/Linux to access the BBC, as part of their PR excercise glossing over
> how badly they've got it wrong with their M$-only iPlayer (see
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1721229 and for background
> see
> http://tom.acrewoods.net/blog/2007/aug/bbc-corrupted-iplayer-protests-uk).
> 
> If you've used GNU/Linux to access the beeb, can you sign the petition
> below? Please circulate widely.
> 
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc

Since the petition is now past double the number and schools where maybe
several hundred students are using Linux are not included in the
figures, what is the plan to follow this up?

BBC totally out of touch with reality? Might make a good headline ;-)

Ian
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