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

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Author: David Rozzell
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Only 400 people use BBC News from Linux
On Friday 02 November 2007, Tony Whitmore 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."
>

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Call me an old cynic if you like but the first thing that sprang to mind
whilst reading the above was "I wonder how much Microsoft paid for that?"

David
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