[Wylug-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Roger wrote:

> On the basis of his other figures (for what they are worth), given 17 million 
> total with 850,000 using Macs, 600 isn't our real target, but orders of 
> magnitude times that many.  Sure there's a multiplier for actual signatures 
> compared with the real number of individuals, but I'd suspect that our 
> response rate would be higher than is usual for (e)petitions: we are 
> genuinely concerned and computer-savvy.

I'd look at it another slightly more positive way.  It's enough to show that
he's wrong.

> And in fact, most of us have access to window-boxes - er, sorry, I mean 
> Windows boxes - so we aren't totally excluded anyway.

Remember at the moment it's restricted to Windows XP only.

> The BBC really should have gone for a generic standards-based solution in the 
> first place,  but I don't know that basing the argument on the size of the 
> Linux community is helpful - that numbers game may validate Highfield's 
> position rather than not.

As you say, the numbers game favours a solution that works everywhere.

> Nevertheless, I think our target needs to be lots more than 600.

I'm not sure we should really have a target.

jh

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