Submission + - BBC says "We'll ignore 600 Linux users"
ChunKing writes: A classic case of foot-in-mouth syndrome this week from the possibly highly-educated and not-very-usefully-employed Director of Future Media and Technology at the BBC, Ashley Highfield who has claimed that among BBC's 17 million-odd users 5% of them use Macs but only about 400-600 users run Linux. The implication being that as so few users use Linux then they realistically be ignored with regard to the iPlayer and online media provision.
A Facebook group has already been started in an attempt to make Mr Highfield "eat his words" and in the great British tradition a petition is also under way. This blog site refers to figures from 2005 that would put Mr Highfield's wild and unsubstantiated claims out by at least a factor of ten.
Notwithstanding the fact that thousands of Linux users are also BBC licence payers, I wonder what response Slashdotters have to say to the BBC's Mr Highfield?
A Facebook group has already been started in an attempt to make Mr Highfield "eat his words" and in the great British tradition a petition is also under way. This blog site refers to figures from 2005 that would put Mr Highfield's wild and unsubstantiated claims out by at least a factor of ten.
Notwithstanding the fact that thousands of Linux users are also BBC licence payers, I wonder what response Slashdotters have to say to the BBC's Mr Highfield?
