Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Puttick wrote:

> Just in case this hasn't got to Sounder yet, we present the BBC's view
> of the number of Linux users in the UK...
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Phil
> Date: 2 Nov 2007 12:03
> Subject: [sf-uk-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you
> use BBC web site!
> To: sf-uk-discuss at googlegroups.com
> 
> 
> 
> 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. Someone 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 :)

Ahem!  Why does the petition specifically refer to people who access the
Beeb from _within_ the UK?
-- 
derek