Re: [Hampshire] Only 400 people use BBC News from Linux

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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Only 400 people use BBC News from Linux
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:04:20 +0000
john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:39:58 +0000
> Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
>
> > That's the claim from the BBC's head of technology in a recent
> > interview:
> >
> > http://linkpot.net/diatribe/
> >
> > "We have 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as
> > our server logs can make out, 5 per cent of those [use Macs] and
> > around 400 to 600 are Linux users."
> >
> > If you'd like to help prove this statement wrong, please consider
> > signing this petition:
> >
> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc/
>
> Duh! they expect you to donate to ipetitions (and assume $10) before
> you can sign the petition.


Looks like I was wrong as they accepted my petition (I just
received an email saying 'thanks for signing') from clicking
on the first page without me needing to pay them any money.


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John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package