[ubuntu-uk] [Malvern] Fw: [Gloucs] Only 400-600 Linux users of bbc.co.ukwebsite?

[John Levin]

Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Just to follow up on the whole BBC thing .... came around the LUG today.
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> This was forwarded by Andrey Oakley
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> The BBC's head of technology states that "We have 17.1 million users of
> bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out ... around
> 400 to 600 are Linux users"
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> http://tinyurl.com/23ojj6
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> If you suspect that this figure is wrong, please sign up to say that you use
> Linux to access bbc.co.uk :
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> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc/
> 

Ashley Highfield (BBC head of tech) has backpedaled a bit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html

Good reportage here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/

John