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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. this FP for GNAA.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    need your help! dead. It Is a dead

  2. Re:Nothing is solved, though by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What are you smoking? Flash is a proprietary protocol that is not portable by anyone except Adobe. That doesn't solve the problem at all.

  3. Discrepancy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First of all, there aren't even 100,000 lunix users on the planet.

    Second, their number likely wasn't off, it was simply crazed Slashdotters going to the BBC site to whine about how the BBC doesn't support the lunix people who don't look at their site.

    And third, once again we see that teh lunix is "all about choice"... which really means any choice except Microsoft.

    So long as the Stallmanistas have control of teh Lunix, nobody will ever take it seriously. Who wants to use an OS which makes people think you are a serial killer?