BBC license payers read this

[DrMega]

Hi all

You may already be aware that the BBC has announced that its new TV via Broadband service will be exclusive to Windows users. This will be a real shame for those of us that pay our license fees, but choose to use Linux instead of Windows, as we will be stuffed if we want to use their new service (which we, as tv license payers, are funding).

There is a government petition that we can sign to oppose this at: Petition to: prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also.

[Roxoff]

Done. Bloody BBC. Bloody government...

[Oxygen]

That is outrageous! No way in HELL are the BBC cutting off my service.

Signed!

[saunderss]

Only one week of Doctor Who left anyway, apart from that I'm not sure what I'd want to watch off the Beeb in any case!

[cayalee]

signed. i cant miss my top gear

[easuter]

signed. i cant miss my top gear

I love Top Gear too , but I don't live in the UK, so can't sign the petition. :\

Hehe, check this out at the end of the page:

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

[zba78]

That is truly sickening news. I really can't believe it. Well actually I can but you know what I mean.

Putting a stop to this could be Mr Brown's 1st public service deed to his people. Perhaps he could make platform independence one of his policies

[fingal]

Signed (using my real name ) The BBC news release can be found here.

[apoorv_khurasia]

Can't sign (not a British citizen) but fully support the cause.....its outrageous.....

But I need a clarification...........is it not true that corporations can decide the terms and conditions for the usage????

Anyways when they will see the number of signatures on the petition they will start thinking in terms of gain and loss

[fingal]

But I need a clarification...........is it not true that corporations can decide the terms and conditions for the usage????

The BBC is publicly owned, funded by our license fees. We have to pay for the privilege of watching their programmes, so the least they can do is listen to the people who fund them.

I have a confession though. I don't watch TV and haven't got a TV set. This is quite deliberate on my part, but I voted anyway. I would be interested in downloading selected programmes, but overall I'm not very interested in what they produce these days.

Actually if you don't have a TV they send you endless reminders to buy a license. They won't believe you if you say you don't watch TV, and offer to come around and check (how kind of them ) ... The least I could do was vote and bother them for a change.