| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2601 | Anonymous | |
| 2602 | Maxim | +1 |
| 2603 | Olivier Lichtenberger | Linux haters are pitiful. |
| 2604 | Freddie Ruddick | |
| 2605 | dar dobs | Time to remove those distorting,rose-tinted microsoft lenses,ms Highfield. |
| 2606 | Anonymous | I think the Linux usage figures quoted by the BBC are way out! I am a relatively new user of Linux, in comparison to some, having used it (also BSD & Solaris) for only the last two years or so ~ but I visit various BBC sites at least a half-dozen times every day which is a very conservative 2190 times a year (probably nearer to 20 or thirty times this figure if accurately measured!).
If I know of at least 6 other Linux users (which I do!) and if they visit the BBC only once a day that equates to my total visits which would be (6x365)x2=4380 hits a year! Come on BBC! I'm no mathematician but if only 0.1% of the TV watching licence paying population used Linux to visit the beeb that is a significant amount of UK people who have to pay the licence fee and therefore they should not be excluded from any of the features provided by the BBC, who utilise part of our licence fee to operate and run their on-line activities & other things!
It seems as though the UK licence payer(s) using Linux and other non-Microsoft operating systems are not only missing out on what they have paid for but they are in fact paying for the rest of the people on this planet who are not living in the UK to get it all for nothing! We pay the TV licence and get nothing (except the poor quality TV) but all other nations on Earth do not have to pay the fee but get it all regardless (even satalite TV!) ~ Does that seem justifiable to anyone? I think anyone using non-MS software in the UK should get a TV licence rebate! ~ So I shall be sending my claim in to the BBC very soon!
Does Bill Gates & Co pay the BBC to be restrictive and only support 'Microsoft operating systems(OS's)'? If not, then there is no Earthy reason why you (the BBC) should omit, exclude or prejudice any OS! If one OS was coloured white (say MS) and the other was coloured black (say Linux) then you (the BBC) would be breaking all sorts of laws! But this is exactly what is happening it's called discrimination and it must be corrected ASAP!
Take a look at the wide variety of open OS's at: http://distrowatch.com/ or http://www.distromania.com/ or http://www.linux.org/ Why not download one of them, burn it as an ISO(image) and stick it in your PC's DVD/CD drive and reboot to see how good they are. You will be surprised! Try: http://www.pclinuxos.com/ or http://www.mepis.org/ both of these will run as a 'live CD' so you don't even need a hard drive to make your PC work! On top of that they come with all manner of built in software such as Open Office (better that MS Office!) a suite of essential office software.
Come on BBC! ~ Get your 'act' and 'systems' in gear and start supporting the Linux, BSD, Mac, Unix, Solaris & any other 'open source' operating systems for that matter. With all the money we (the UK Licence payers) are obligated to pay you every year just to watch some of the rubbish that is broadcast it is the very least you can do! Or else give-us-a rebate!
Cheers,
A Licence Payer! |
| 2607 | Keith Mitchell | The point is not about what people have installed on their desktop/laptop PCs - most people watch BBC video on TV sets, DVD players, VCRs, and will want to do so in future on PVRs, mobile phones, set-top media players etc, etc. Most of these embedded appliances do *not* run Windows - only a truly *cross-platform* non-DRM solution will meet all these licence-payer viewing expectations. |
| 2608 | fleamailman | this penguin doesn't give his real name, and no you can't guess our numbers it seems, can't touch us |
| 2609 | Duncan Bellamy | |
| 2610 | Peter Joles | |
| 2611 | Stani Mychyls | |
| 2612 | John East | I have several PC's at home all of which use linux. I Frequently visit the BBC site and am annoyed that I cannot use the Iplayer because of the BBC's blinkered and uninformed views on Technology. |
| 2613 | Owain Clarke | |
| 2614 | Urs Rau | Have been using linux on a daily basis for the last 15 years. |
| 2615 | Kerstin Rau | |
| 2616 | Kim Rau | |
| 2617 | Benjamin Rau | |
| 2618 | Anonymous | |
| 2619 | mukesh varia | |
| 2620 | KEVIN LUCAS | I have used Linux since 1995
Unix before that |
| 2621 | Anonymous | I have been using Linux to access BBC websites for seven years. |
| 2622 | Anonymous | |
| 2623 | Andy Spayes | |
| 2624 | Conor O'Neill | |
| 2625 | Grant McSherry | I visit the BBC website every day and always using linux. People from all over the world visit the BBC website. To say that only 400 linux users visit the site is ridiculous. |
| 2626 | Andrew Aylett | |
| 2627 | Anonymous | |
| 2628 | Rob Shields | |
| 2629 | Wally Wilson | 2.6.18-dcc-smp Debian/GNU |
| 2630 | Anonymous | I USED to access from within the UK using Linux but now live overseas. I still access the BBC news homepage every day using Linux from central Africa. |
| 2631 | Apollon Koutlidis | |
| 2632 | Chris P | I don't use Linux. I use Windows, NetBSD and Solaris. If you provide a Linux player, I can almost certainly use this player on NetBSD.
You should be making your video service as open as possible - don't concentrate on the player. Concentrate on the content. |
| 2633 | David Rignall | I do all my computing via linux! As I also pay my TV license, it's galling that I am debarred from using this service. |
| 2634 | Simon Dalsgaard | I use the BBC website daily |
| 2635 | Peter Nichol | having to use windows bits to hear classical music on line is a problem |
| 2636 | Anonymous | |
| 2637 | Martin Habets | |
| 2638 | Stephen Chaffer | I use the BBC website and I use Linux Mandriva with Firefox |
| 2639 | Mark East | I use the BBC News site from a firefox browser in Kubuntu Linux daily. |
| 2640 | Gavin Henry | |
| 2641 | Mike Blakemore | |
| 2642 | Anonymous | |
| 2643 | VEERAGANESH | |
| 2644 | Jim Trebbien | |
| 2645 | Anonymous | |
| 2646 | Anonymous | I use opensuse and visit BBC sites frequently. |
| 2647 | Andrew Atkinson | |
| 2648 | Anonymous | |
| 2649 | Darren Mansell | |
| 2650 | Richard Marsh | |