I noticed this earlier (though not the register piece) I have to say though even the new figures are weird, I mean what's the margin of error on a calculation giving a difference of over 60000 - twice as high as the lowest figure?
How on earth are the calculating this figure? Dougie On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:29 +0000, John Levin wrote: > Ian Pascoe wrote: > > Just to follow up on the whole BBC thing .... came around the LUG today. > > > > E > > > > > > This was forwarded by Andrey Oakley > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > > > The BBC's head of technology states that "We have 17.1 million users of > > bbc.co.uk in the UK and, as far as our server logs can make out ... around > > 400 to 600 are Linux users" > > > > http://tinyurl.com/23ojj6 > > > > If you suspect that this figure is wrong, please sign up to say that you use > > Linux to access bbc.co.uk : > > > > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc/ > > > > Ashley Highfield (BBC head of tech) has backpedaled a bit: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html > > Good reportage here: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/02/highfield_bbc_linux_website_users_bafflement/ > > John > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
