| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 2851 | bob morris | |
| 2852 | bob morris | |
| 2853 | Simon Parker | |
| 2854 | greg | license payer and linux user!!!! |
| 2855 | Anonymous | |
| 2856 | Kevin John Fletcher | |
| 2857 | Marc Kirkwood | I'm sick of the whole BBC DRM nonsense. If someone pays for a licence in the UK, they should able to download and keep whatever BBC-owned content they like, completely free and openly! Why can't they use an open source iPlayer and BitTorrent system (like Democracy Player/Mimo), instead of a closed source one with "Kontiki" as the P2P backend?
I can understand why they want to keep DRM, so that they can "negotiate with the rights owners" and sell internationally and/or on DVDs. But they should at least make their in-house productions completely free. Then again, that leads to the "I don't want to pay for freeloading foreigners!" argument, which I feel strongly about, too. Maybe the BBC should issue annual dividends to licence payers based on its high profit margins, and act less like a "Corporation" and more like a true publically funded entity. Because they shouldn't have both, surely? It shouldn't be illegal for anyone to download what they've already paid for! |
| 2858 | Jeff Ferguson | "Head of technology" your having a laugh!!! |
| 2859 | Niall McLoughlin | Only came across this petition now (jan 2008)
Access the BBC every day using Linux, My browser (firefox) tells sites that it's IE6. |
| 2860 | Mark Stevenson | |
| 2861 | Dave Chate | Yes, I use GNU/Linux, but isn't this more
about the BBC's software choices?
If the BBC is still a public service
broadcaster (!), why is it allowed to
waste so much public cash (from our taxes
& TV Licence fees), getting locked into
profit-driven expensive rubbish, rather
than use community-driven FOSS? FOSS is
obviously much more ethical, but it is
also better developed and maintained,
making it more reliable, versatile,
portable, etc. In fact, it's generally
more useful, surely?
The likes of M$ only mostly sell their
wares because they target the ignorant.
Has the BBC lost all morals or finally
dumbed itself down to such a low point? |
| 2862 | K White | I use Klikit Linux on my desktop and my Laptop |
| 2863 | John Minear | I pay my license fee and I have a right to expect the BBC to make there content available to other platforms not just that of Microsoft |
| 2864 | Anonymous | I am a linux user who pay for TV licence. I bookmarked BBC site along with several other news sites (or should I delete it?). And I am sick to hear the claim: 600 users? If Microsoft gives you enough money then stop collecting our licence!! |
| 2865 | Ian Moore | |
| 2866 | Chris | I know there are loads of Linux users accessing BBC content because I have personally installed linux on their Windows PCs. Almost all of these users have switched to Linux because of poor performance / security issues which makes the MS OS less suitable for general internet browsing |
| 2867 | bisu bast | i am a regular visitor and i use ubuntu. |
| 2868 | Mary Mooney | It is absolutely ridiculous that I cannot view those programmes marked "listen again" just because I use an ubuntu laptop.
Come on BBC, wake up! |
| 2869 | Kyle J Mason | wrong! I use Linux all the time including to access the bbc's sites. |
| 2870 | ANGRY LINUX USER | I AM ANGRY AND A LINUX USER!!!!!!! |
| 2871 | Ross Worsdale | |
| 2872 | Wilco Baan Hofman | |
| 2873 | Sam Wedge | |
| 2874 | Anonymous | |
| 2875 | Robert Wood | Shame on you BBC for getting into bed with a bunch of corporate bullies like Microsoft. Every day I visit your website from Linux machines. |
| 2876 | ian semple | |
| 2877 | Gary Henderson | I pay my license fee like millions of others but am unable to access the content I pay for |
| 2878 | Darren Hewett | Using Firefox on Linuxmint to access BBC sites. BBC License payer. |
| 2879 | Bruce Munro | |
| 2880 | Anonymous | Please make the BBC site Linux friendly. |
| 2881 | Sarah Mount | |
| 2882 | Duarte Molha | We are much more than you think!! |
| 2883 | Joseph Bryant | |
| 2884 | Ian Masters | My office of 5 Linux PCs access the BBC website. |
| 2885 | Michael Emery | inux user and angry BBC license payer |
| 2886 | Sture | |
| 2887 | YHVH | This is really pissing me off. |
| 2888 | Kev Green | |
| 2889 | John Burgess | First: I migrated to Linux about a year ago and, after trying it out, so have many of my friends. We're all delighted and are spreading the word and other friends are trying it right now. So - whatever the numbers are for Linux use right now - they are bound only to increase. Second: I refuse to pay a US company a fee in order to be able to use British facilities - the BBC should be ashamed of themselves for going along with this. |
| 2890 | David Richards | how was this so called research carried out or was it a guess? |
| 2891 | Anonymous | As a license payer, I request that you provide a way of using the IPlayer that is suitable for users of any operating system to use, by adhering to open published standards for content delivery.
I pay the same licence fee irrespective of the operating system that I use, why should my ability to view content that I have funded not be similarly irrespective of the operating system that I use?
In the last three months alone, I have helped thirty people install Linux on their computers, all of whom are License payers. |
| 2892 | Anonymous | Lies! There are plenty of LInux users out here! |
| 2893 | Anonymous | Ubuntu user and licence payer !!!!!!!!!! |
| 2894 | B J Coram | Ye I use linux..and like it. |
| 2895 | Martin Cook | Fedora and Ubuntu user whos can't access some content on the BBC site. I'm a website developer, and there's no way I'd make a website that wasn't accessible to Linux users (or Mac or Windows users). It's easy enough to do - it just needs the will. |
| 2896 | Anonymous | I use Linux at home, I use Linux and Windows at work. For an easy life (being the family's tech support), I've moved my mum and mother-in-law on to Linux - which, incidentally, they find very easy to use and much more reliable - both being technophobes! They are both license payers and should have access too.
Come on BBC - you take my money give me my service. And being mildly anti-MS, don't use my contribution to fund those monopolists |
| 2897 | Mark Edworthy | |
| 2898 | D Muir | |
| 2899 | James Kingston | linux for the masses |
| 2900 | Mr R. J. Black | Fedora 8. Did not try iplayer. |