At first glance, the 1,200 signatures PC Advisor forum member Paul Milne’s already achieved for his Windows Vista price protest on 10 Downing Street’s E-Petitions website seems like a decent achievement.
But I’ve spent a bit of time on the website this afternoon, and I’m not convinced everyone’s taking these e-petitions seriously.
For example, the petition to encourage the Prime Minister to stand on his head and juggle ice-cream has received 3,935 signatures. Meanwhile, the effort to convince the government to replace the national anthem with 'Gold' by Spandau Ballet has been backed by 4,637 people.
Set against those two petitions, Milne’s efforts to convince Tony Blair to encourage Microsoft to slash the price of Vista don’t look so unrealistic after all.
Comments
Totally-braindead said: Yes I noticed the ice cream one so youre right many are not taking these petitions seriously I dont seriously expect Mr Blair to do anything It was an effort by me to say to Microsoft that we know they are ripping us off If they can come up with any sort of half decent arguement on the pricing then fair enough but so far they have just waffled there so called explanations
Rob said: The government shouldnt get involvedAny company should be free to set the price of its productsIf consumers dont like the price dont buy the product The company then has two choices reduce the price of the product or watch their competitors gain the advantageMarket forces at work