[Gllug] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[DL Neil]

Quoting John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>:

> Caroline Ford wrote:
>> I note that Highfield had gone back on his figures..
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
>
> You've got to love that kind of statement from a corporate marketing-droid:-
> "It depends on how exactly we count the users...

Statistics are so easily misinterpreted (aka raw intelligence failure).

Try adding a bit of socio-logical understanding: if the VERY FIRST  
time a computer literate person visits using Linux and find that the  
site won't work 'properly', will (s)he visit it again (using Linux) or  
does (s)he have the capacity to learn from the (sorry) experience?

- FIRST TIME visitors who are using Linux
- Linux users accessing browser-independent pages only
...
- Linux users who have switched to a Windows machine to make things  
work for them
- Linux users whose browser does not 'advertise' completely or which 'spoofs'
...
- Linux users who have gone elsewhere for their entertainment
- Linux users who go elsewhere and don't have a requirement to pay the  
licence fee
...

Regards,
=dn


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