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# NameComments
51 Ian Borchardt
52 Barry CorneliusNo time period is given but 17.1 million to 600 is unbelievable. They must have a bug in how they collect data. He says "17.1 million users" but how do they know how many users? Are they using market research surveys or are they looking at log files? If the latter, how can they get the number of users? IP addresses maybe. It's also an unsatisfactory piece of journalism.
53 Paul Elms
54 Anonymous
55 Mark CreanThe BBC's proud claim is that it makes programmes for all sections of society. In that case, it should also make them available on the same basis and not think catering to Windows is enough.
56 Adam OellermannI use Ubuntu Linux for my business and hobby, and of course to access the BBC web sites (especially news.bbc.co.uk). My wife uses Ubuntu on her laptop, as do my mother and sister (neither of whom are technical). A user base of 400 to 600 is nonsense, and indicates that the BBC is not using valid techniques to gather and analyse the data. Perhaps if they were using a Linux-based system to perform their analysis they would have come up with more accurate results!
57 Matt Hillsdon
58 Peter Maydell
59 Lev LafayetteNota bene: I don't access it from within the UK..
60 Jez Thurgood
61 John WarnerI view BBC news everyday and use the podcast service etc for programmes I would otherwise miss - I use only Linux to access the pages.
62 Anonymous
63 AnonymousI read BBC News daily on a laptop installed with Ubuntu
64 Scott LambThe BBC are seriously losing the game with their MS-backed anti-competitive behaviour.
65 Michael Virks
66 Daniel Barlow
67 AnonymousThe BBC's reporting on computing generally consists of regurgitating microsoft press releases so the ludicrously low figure from Ashley Highfield is no surprise - he's probably just saying what M$ told him to say.
68 Eve Friday
69 Martin Rowe
70 Graham Horsman
71 Chris McCall
72 Thomas Hayward
73 Jhayne
74 Mark WebsterSomeone's made a dire cock-up somewhere along the line here. I have several desktops and laptops which I use frequently, and 3 of them run Linux. There are many, many, many more people like us in this country. Fear and equal treatment for all, please!
75 Mark WebsterSomeone's made a dire cock-up somewhere along the line here. I have several desktops and laptops which I use frequently, and 3 of them run Linux. There are many, many, many more people like us in this country. Fair and equal treatment for all, please!
76 Dave Hodder
77 Will ThompsonI assume there's a missing "thousand" in the quote or something?
78 dan prisk
79 Anonymous
80 Alex Smitho_O What're you talking about?
81 Dan Goscomb
82 Anonymous
83 Helen400 to 600 is a ridiculous figure, perhaps they should double check their server logs. Or re-analyse them.
84 Harry Mills
85 Jen Yockney
86 Mike PinnaI regularly read the BBC website from my Linux-based computer, as do many of my friends and colleagues.
87 Julian BrownErm, yeah.
88 Melanie LewisMy home machines are Macs. My works laptop runs Ubuntu. I don't use Windows.
89 Glyn KenningtonI do! I'm that Elinks user you may have noticed in your log files.
90 Robin StevensLinux on desktop, laptop and handheld devices. Macs too. Windows, never, if I can help it.
91 John Halewood
92 Fernando OrusI only use linux (konqueror & iceweasel browsers), I pay my tv license and visit the bbc site every day
93 Sadiq Jaffer
94 Daniel Watkins
95 Nathan Wong
96 Rayner Lucas
97 AnonymousI visit BBC News from the UK several times daily using kubuntu.
98 Mark Brown
99 Martin Ling
100 Andy Gray

 

Signatures | Total: 2,950