| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2801 | Richard Webb | |
| 2802 | Wei Mingzhi | |
| 2803 | Jeremy Hughes | I use Linux to access the BBC. Using it now! |
| 2804 | Graham Watkins | I'm sure there are more of us than that! |
| 2805 | Dr John Williamson | As a public broadcasting organisation with financial support from the state, the BBC should not be requiring users to obtain software from one monopolistic supplier. |
| 2806 | Bradley Eaton | |
| 2807 | Dave Woodward | |
| 2808 | Andrew Bates | |
| 2809 | Ben Shephard | I am uk based but not only people in the uk use the BBC's online material infact everywhere i have traveled i find it common to see people in other countries using the bbc in preferance to local material
what about the international linux users especialy in developing nations where perhaps microsoft products and high spec pc's are expensive an inaccessible to the largest portion local population and linux provides a viable alternative |
| 2810 | beojan | |
| 2811 | Mattbew Hagan | remove drm and release linux version! |
| 2812 | Anonymous | there are plenty of people using 'alternative operating systems' out there and we see no reason that the BBC should discriminate against us. |
| 2813 | Anonymous | I think there are more users of linux
than you would imagine and increasing rapidly as it is a more secure system compared to windows.I started using linux for the that reason. |
| 2814 | Graham Smith | Both computers in our house dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. My machine runs Ubuntu 95% of the time , my girlfriends runs Xubuntu 100% of the time. We would both be very annoyed if Linux use on the BBC website was "Engineered Out" because Mr Highfield (Mistakenly) believes we don't exist. |
| 2815 | P. James | Not only am I a linux user of the bbcwebsite (primarily radio/news content).
I have actively requested why the BBC website uses technology that is not easily available to linux users and why they use a Flash(tm) interface that excludes 64bit browsers.
Also the use of Real-Player was a previous issue.
Alot of these issues are being corrected, not by the BBC or the program vendors (Adobe Flash / Realplayer) , but by LINUX USERS.
By ignoring us, you are ignoring the future and anyone that doesn't have the means to pay £x,000 pounds every few years to keep up with Miscosoft's version of technology. |
| 2816 | Paul Sobey | |
| 2817 | Adrian Preece | I use Ubuntu and Dream Linux and am proud to be completely Micro$oft free.. |
| 2818 | Alistair Bell | |
| 2819 | Scott Ryan | I primarily use linux and macosx and visit the website. How do they determine what os accesses RSS feeds? |
| 2820 | dan halbert | |
| 2821 | Anonymous | |
| 2822 | Christopher | Using Firefox and Fedora7 Not all the world runs on Microsoft. |
| 2823 | Nigel Horne | Please ensure Linux users are not disenfranchised. |
| 2824 | Anonymous | Been using Linux for years now - wouldn't trust anything else. Open Standards = peace in the computing world! |
| 2825 | Max Norton | |
| 2826 | Tom Haskins-Vaughan | I use Linux and have not managed yet to get the video player working?! How about using a flash player?! |
| 2827 | Peter Robson | I use linux to access the bbc website |
| 2828 | Ken Harding | |
| 2829 | Rick Beton | |
| 2830 | Rick Timmis | I have been visiting bbc.co.uk exclusively using Linux and Mozilla / FIrefox since 2001 |
| 2831 | Anonymous | |
| 2832 | Anonymous | I know several people who use Linux to access the BBC web site, but they can't sign petitions because of the access conditions placed on them by their workplace. |
| 2833 | A Holyoake | Gentoo |
| 2834 | A Holyoake | Gentoo |
| 2835 | Rick Dekker | Come on guys, i though you're about freedom of things! |
| 2836 | robert davies | and i can think of five other family (extended) members |
| 2837 | Graham Whiteside | |
| 2838 | Tim | I use both Linux and a Mac (OSX) to access the BBC website |
| 2839 | Dale Strickland-Clark | |
| 2840 | David | Let me be an equal to other o/s users |
| 2841 | Richard Earl | I use Linux to access BBC online content - even though I'm signing this from a clapped-out WinXP box at work. |
| 2842 | Dean Liddle | |
| 2843 | Paul Hargrave | I will probably be shot down for saying this .. but I can understand the need for a rights management on BBC material - much of which is sold to other broadcasters. What I think is criminal is using DRM software from a company that has has stranglehold on the operating systems market - thus shoring up Microsoft's already strong position. Why not use a 3rd party supplier that can give the BBC the rights managment it requires yet has no interest in the actual platform used. |
| 2844 | Brandon Plaufcan | I am happily running Ubuntu 7.10. Gnu/Linux. Looks Like the head of technology is wrong. |
| 2845 | Anonymous | I wish BBC radio would support Linux too. |
| 2846 | Frances Midgley | I want to swap to Linux; I'm fed up (and can't afford) to update my hardware and software every couple of years. I thought the BBC Click program would be able to help me with this transition. I was wrong! Why don't the BBC treat all software fairly? |
| 2847 | John Nichol | I am a linux (and windows) users and visit the BBC site regularly and know other linux users that do. I can't believe there are as few as 600 or 700 other people doing the same |
| 2848 | Steve Brown | I've just transferred to Linux, after a lot of research, to escape the Microsoft trap. It's not been easy and large scale support of MIcrosoft by the larger organisations does not help.
I'm not sure why the BBC wants to justify this position but if it was easy to use internet content using Linux there would be more users. It just needs the cycle breaking. |
| 2849 | Stewart Robertson | |
| 2850 | David Anderson | |