<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Childs</b> <<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alain Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Please sign, it takes a minute.<br><br>----- Forwarded message from Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard.bennett@skynet.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">richard.bennett@skynet.be
</a>> -----<br><br>Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:31:53 +0100<br>From: "Richard Bennett" <
<a href="mailto:richard.bennett@skynet.be" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">richard.bennett@skynet.be</a>><br>Subject: [WAUK] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!
<br>To: <a href="mailto:wauk@workalone.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wauk@workalone.co.uk</a>
<br><br>Hi,<br><br>The BBC's head of technology, Ashley Highfield, in making excuses for the<br>iPlayer, claims that only 400-600 people access the BBC website using<br>Linux!<br>A petition was setup to help assess how wrong he is. If you access
<br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.bbc.co.uk</a> using GNU/Linux, please sign up.<br><br><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc</a><br><br>Here's the article where he justifies a Windows-only iplayer because Mac
<br>users are only 5% and Linux 400 to 600 people out of their 17 million<br>visitors.<br><a href="http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951</a><br></blockquote></div><br></span>hmm I wonder what they are using for stats i know desktop linux is low but 
0.00003535% is just silly. <br><span class="sg"><br>Peter.<br>
</span></blockquote></div><br><br>Sorry what i was trying to say is that the stats can't be correct because they don't add up!  Stats are usally mis leading but those don't even reflect reality. <br>eg linux user are of a similar size to mac uses or at least thats what i had aways thought...
<br><br><br>Peter<br>