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

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:01:37PM +0000, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:38:29PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> > Please sign, it takes a minute.
> 
> Yeees......so, head of technology looks into web logs, pulls out the recorded
> statistics to give numbers of people accessing the website: "We have 17.1
> million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK, and, as far as our server logs can make
> out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and around 400 to 600 are Linux users". I
> can see why he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about....
> 
> Folks, if you want to show the BBC that more people use Linux than they record
> in their logs, then browse the site using a browser on Linux! Don't sign some
> petition, but do something *useful* about it.
> 
> Dan

People *are* using Linux browers. And in much higher numbers than
those statistics.

Within an hour the petition had 550+ signatures. It is impossible that
the email could have reached everyone that uses Linux to access the
BBC website, and that they could all have signed the petition so
quickly.

So it is clear that the published numbers are wrong. Whether it is the
methodology, the data gathering, or his interpretation of them that is
at fault is impossible for an outsider to say. But they are wrong.



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