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