[Gloucs] Only 400-600 Linux users of bbc.co.uk website?

[Frank Pohlmann]

I read server logs on a daily basis. I believe that the person preparing the press release/statement suffered from the usual inability of media people to tell 100, 1000 and 10000 apart. 

It is possible that the OS signatures they were looking for didn't always include Linux - I am not sure whether, e.g. Firefox on CentOS would tell us anything about Linux, but rather say something along the lines of CentOS, Fedora or whatever it is based on.

-frank

----- Original Message ----
From: Sean Keeney <seany at seanyseansean.com>
To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, 2 November, 2007 7:28:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Only 400-600 Linux users of bbc.co.uk website?

Maybe it was taken out of context, and he meant users of the
 audio/video 
streams?

Either way that's rubbish. In my new job there is at least 15,
 including 
myself. Granted they're all using the same public IP, but i'm sure the 
BBC weren't counting individual IPs when they came up with that 17 
million number. If I personally know 20 regular browsers of their site 
using Linux, that would imply I personally know 3 percent of the Linux 
BBC browsing public. Which is bollocks.

I'd like to the details of his browser stats.

Andrew Oakley wrote:
> The BBC's head of technology states that "We have 17.1 million users
 of
> bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out ...
 around
> 400 to 600 are Linux users"
>
> http://tinyurl.com/23ojj6
>
> If you suspect that this figure is wrong, please sign up to say that
 you use
> Linux to access bbc.co.uk :
>
> http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc/
>
>   


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