Re: [Fsfe-uk] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[MJ Ray]

Ian Lynch <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:49 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc
>
> Since the petition is now past double the number and schools where maybe
> several hundred students are using Linux are not included in the
> figures, what is the plan to follow this up?
>
> BBC totally out of touch with reality? Might make a good headline ;-)

He *still* doesn't get the standards-not-platforms point:

  "I have received and seen on the net a lot of comment on this point
  of the number of Linux users using bbc.co.uk so I have had a good
  look into the validity of the figures I'd been given.

  [...] the reporting system used to provide the numbers I quoted gave
  the lowest number (this is the system we use the most widely, and
  I've asked for a thorough check to see if it is correctly picking up
  all Linux users).

  Alternative analysis [...] could imply a user base between 36,600
  and 97,600. We'll try and get a more accurate picture: over 30
  thousand Linux users is a not insubstantial number, but we do have
  to keep this in context with the vast majority of users who use
  either Windows or Macs to access bbc.co.uk."

BBC Internet Blog: Ashley Highfield - Linux Figures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html

BBC has totally lost the technical plot in so many ways recently.
Their online video activities are becoming an expensive embarrassment
to the nation, but are sadly eclipsed by the growing incompetence of
the commercial networks.

I don't really have a plan to follow this up or time to co-ordinate
one, but if anyone does, let me know and I'll try to cooperate.

Regards,
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