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

[Peter Childs]

On 02/11/2007, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Please sign, it takes a minute.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Richard Bennett <richard.bennett at skynet.be>
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>
> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:31:53 +0100
> From: "Richard Bennett" <richard.bennett at skynet.be>
> Subject: [WAUK] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!
> To: wauk at workalone.co.uk
>
> Hi,
>
> The BBC's head of technology, Ashley Highfield, in making excuses for the
> iPlayer, claims that only 400-600 people access the BBC website using
> Linux!
> A petition was setup to help assess how wrong he is. If you access
> www.bbc.co.uk using GNU/Linux, please sign up.
>
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc
>
> Here's the article where he justifies a Windows-only iplayer because Mac
> users are only 5% and Linux 400 to 600 people out of their 17 million
> visitors.
>
> http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bbc-not-in-bed-with-bill-gates-over-iplayer?articleid=36522951
>

hmm I wonder what they are using for stats i know desktop linux is low but
0.00003535% is just silly.

Peter.
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