On Friday 02 Nov 2007, Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Tony Whitmore <tony@???> [2007-11-02 10:44]:
> > 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."
>
> I'd be interested to know how those statistics are gathered.
Quite. Would the likes of Dell _really_ have gone to the effort of providing a Linux option on their new PC's in return for a smattering of customers in that order of magnitude? Wouldn't make much of a business case would it?
Something has surely been missed here.
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Jack Knight
Chief Technical Officer
Open Source Migrations Ltd
UK
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