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

[Andy]

On 03/11/2007, Tristan Wibberley <maihem at maihem.org> wrote:
> 1) that we have a TV license,

Done. I have one pinned on the wall.
Also if you read the charter it says that the BBC can't take the term
license payer literally.
It includes people who will buy a license in the future.

> 2) that we have a computer with appropriate hardware and software that
> they, or someone else, can re-program enough to receive and display the
> content as the BBC has for Windows,

My PC conforms closely to the POSIX standard for operating systems.
It supports the Unix socket layer so networking is fine.
It has a graphics card.
It can run applications that use OpenGL.

> 3) that the software is Ubuntu,

Why Ubuntu?
What about all the other distributions?

> 4) that Ubuntu is small in the home computer OS market because it is a
> new and growing product in that market - that it has not died (eg,
> through natural market forces).

Maybe the E.U. rulings against Microsoft would help prove this?
Didn't the ruling directly involve WMP?

> That Dell has very recently started offering Ubuntu on its home desktops
> is very strong evidence that the market is making Ubuntu grow

Let's not forget Tesco as well, I doubt anyone in the UK doesn't know Tesco.

Unfortunately who do we prove this to?

The BBC Trust refuse to take any action what-so-ever. The BBC have
shown they have no intention with complying with orders from their
regulator. They said that we should accept there we be some users they
can not provide access to (or words to that effect). However the trust
ordered the BBC to make iPlayer "platform neutral" The BBC's
statements seem to contradict this heavily. And yet no one in the BBC
is in court yet. why? Is it perfectly legal to refuse to comply with
orders from regulators, if so why bother with having industry
regulators in the first place if they can only issue guidelines and
have no legal force?

Maybe the E.U. should prosecute the BBC.

Andy

(Grr. Why must sounder behave differently to every other Ubuntu list,
nearly got caught by that again.)

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