On Thursday 22 November 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Although off-topic this should be of interest to most of us (since it is > > potentially discriminatory against Linux users) and particularly to those > > of us who visit the BBC website. If you live in the UK you may have one > > more reason to complain - you pay for the BBC license and you are > > entitled to have a say as to how your money is being spent! [snip...]
> Well, I know on my browser, I can tell it to tell the server I am using > IE or some other browser. I wonder if other people are doing the same > so it will work correctly? I have to do this on the myspace website or > I get errors. > > There may be more Linux users than are getting reported. Oh, yea, I > know, I'm on the wrong side of the pond. Well, if you are a website visitor the whole wide world is your oyster and BBC ought to cater for this (within reason). They have messed up big time, spending millions!!! of GBP to develop a MS Windows only media player (MS Windows binary) and have received wide criticism about it. Now they are trying to squirm out of their obligations as a *public* broadcaster, by claiming that they don't need to address the needs of the "few hundred" Linux visitors. Not on! I suggest that if you are a *nix BBC web site visitor of any flavour you are entitled to express your views on the matter and this petition is one way of doing so. -- Regards, Mick
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