| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 201 | Rich Wareham | Join the Facebook group too!
http://cambridge.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21236595408 |
| 202 | Colin Fletcher | |
| 203 | Anonymous | As secretary of the Watford Linnux users group I can assure you that our members (a total of more than 20) are all users of Linux and will at one time or another attempt to use the BBC websites. This is only a small sample of the Linux users in the Watford area. |
| 204 | John O'Shea | Easy to change the system sig so that people cannot see your real system type - just good security practise but does lead to dodgy stats |
| 205 | Rich Wareham | Join the Facebook group too!
http://cambridge.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21236595408 |
| 206 | Rich Wareham | Join the Facebook group too!
http://cambridge.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21236595408 |
| 207 | Ben Thorp | I use Linux on both my desktop and laptop, and I also have a Nokia internet tablet, which runs Linux too... |
| 208 | Joseph Haig | I live inthe UK and read the BBC web site every day, always with Linux. |
| 209 | Paul Smeddle | I'm not sure where he gets that figure. Surely it's not the User-Agent: header? That's qidely altered to stop stupid websites denying access to otherwise perfectly compatible browsers on the basis that they're "not I.E." ... |
| 210 | Peter Benie | |
| 211 | Anonymous | |
| 212 | David Williams | I use both Linux and Mac clients to access the BBC's content. |
| 213 | Andrew Holdiong | |
| 214 | Richard Green | |
| 215 | graham gillions | |
| 216 | Richard Brown | |
| 217 | Simon Powell | Microsoft's new license terms force users to buy whole new software instead of upgrades and gives them the right to search your hard disk for copyright purposes. I have 5 children 3 at university, and they are all equipped with legal linux installations because I cannot afford the Microsoft licenses. Linux should be the platform of choice for governments etc. They fly the AIrbus and 747 entertainment systems with it. |
| 218 | John Taylor | |
| 219 | Yvan Seth | Household of two professionals who exclusively use Linux at home and work and view the BBC (mainly news) website several times a day. |
| 220 | Tom Chance (Green Party Speaker on IP and Free Software) | |
| 221 | Jack Knight | I have used Linux almost exclusively for 2 years, only using Windows when there is no alternative. |
| 222 | Christopher Liddell | |
| 223 | David Withers | |
| 224 | James Lloyd | I think the is another example of PR gloss without really thinking about the consequences of decision. BBC should except that they have made a mistake put their hands up and sort it out. Why do people always have to make some excuse when they have made a mistake. |
| 225 | Jim MacLeod | Regular user of radio's 'listen again' services |
| 226 | Anonymous | |
| 227 | Oli Ward | A concerted effort should be made to support any OS and any browser on a website, especially if it is a service that everyone should be able to use (in the UK, after all we are paying for it), to do otherwise is poor practice and more than somewhat lazy. |
| 228 | Anonymous | 400-600? Tosh.
I work at a linux company and a large proportion of our staff use the BBC for news (not only in the UK) |
| 229 | Sally Maughan | |
| 230 | P J Harris | Erm, how do server logs equate to users please? Our linux PCs at cybercafe can have 10 users per day. |
| 231 | Mark Norman | I look at the BBC web site most days, from a linux (Ubuntu) work station. |
| 232 | Anonymous | Looks like he needs his logs examined. Perhaps he meant lynx users? and not linux users with browsers like Firefox and Opera? |
| 233 | Anonymous | |
| 234 | Adam Trickett | |
| 235 | Dr RJ Blackwell-Whitehead | Most of my academic colleagues use Unix/Linux or Macs, please do not exclude us from the wonderful information source that is the BBC. |
| 236 | Ian Pickworth | I use BBC RSS feeds, and access BBC website once a day at least. I use Gentoo. Perhaps the "head of technology" is basing his figures on the User Agent header? Well - many people set that to look like IE to fool stupid web sites. |
| 237 | Jon Dye | |
| 238 | John Lewis | I have been a Linux user for over ten years. I have no systems with a M$ OS in my house so need the BBC to provide an alternative to the current BBC offering |
| 239 | Andy Cheesman | |
| 240 | Anonymous | |
| 241 | Chris Wareham | Well, I actually access it from NetBSD, but excluding support for Linux in their future technology decisions would hinder NetBSD support as well. |
| 242 | Phil Driscoll | If only 400 to 600 Linux users access the BBC website, then my circle of family and friends represents nearly a quarter of their Linux using audience. Wow! |
| 243 | Andy Kilner | |
| 244 | Andrew Oakley | |
| 245 | Jason Clifford | I access the BBC website daily and I only run Linux. |
| 246 | Erik Finlow-Bates | Linux user since 1994 |
| 247 | Paul Tansom | I access the BBC news feed used on my own website daily from Linux. I did have another BBC news feed on another website, but had to remove it because it was seriously broken. Multiple requests to the BBC to get it fixed, including one with an outlined solution, were ignored. Where are these statistics from? Do they take into account the fact that Linux users are generally (at the moment) more technical and may not use a traditional route in to the new they want? At one point, in order to fix the broken BBC new feed I scripted a system that copied the news, fixed the feed and then provided it locally - that would mess up any statistics! |
| 248 | Erik Finlow-Bates | Linux user since 1994 |
| 249 | Rob White - Green Party | I use Ubuntu Linux. |
| 250 | Peta Spies | |