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

[Peter Childs]

On 05/11/2007, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 2 Nov 2007, 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
>
> For a less blatantly wrong set, but why should anyone trust him now?
>

It does not matter whether we trust him or not its the picture the stats
give. If our image is of a very very low percentage of uses even below that
of the Mac (which I don't get but never mind)

Linux has a larger user base than it has ever had before but its still
mostly based on hmm Company Machines, and servers not desktops in peoples
homes and these are often the people who visit sites like the BBCs

We as a user group have a lot of work to do to bring linux to the people. We
need to get into the press, We need to put a less geekey image on. We need
real market penetration, just because the stats are wrong does not mean we
can fix them by destroying them out of hand, we need to get more users so
that Linux is hmm 50% and starts to really worry Microsoft. Currently linux
is small cheese.
Now If tesco were selling there linux machines in every tesco store in the
country of the shelf that would make a difference, they are not.

Peter
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