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

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 08:58 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 02 Nov 2007, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > Hello there
> >
> > The BBC's head of technology, Ashley Highfield is making excuses for
> > the iPlayer.  In that he claims that only 400-600 people access the
> > BBC website using Linux.   I write a lot about Linux and travel
> > sometimes.  I'm sure that he is very very wrong. One of the FSFE
> > persons 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
> 
> I'm sure a lot of Linux users just don't bother going to the BBC site 
> because they know they won't get service.

I use the BBC's online services on Ubuntu, although I do it via RSS.
I'm pretty sure the RSS feed figures for GNU/Linux users would be much larger
than those accessing their index page for two reasons:
1) RSS is a nice way to read news and since many GNU/Linux users have
above average computer knowledge it would be quite widely used.
2) Firefox (along with pretty much every RSS-enabled app) comes with a
BBC news feed subscribed to by default. Since pretty much every distro
comes with Firefox that means most desktop Linux users are subscribed
whether they use it or not.

Other than RSS I occasionally watch Click, although it feels like bowel
surgery getting Real Video running on my 64bit laptop.

Chris Warburton


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