____/ Nigel Feltham on Wednesday 07 November 2007 09:05 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> BBC admits massive underestimate of Linux users
>>
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>> | The BBC has backtracked on claims that it has only hundreds of Linux
>> | users accessing its website.
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> I've had a thought about those wrong numbers - is it possible that some
> distro's send the distro name as part of the browser ID instead of the word
> 'Linux' and this has confused the numbers.
>
> Another possibility is they searched for the full string sent by Linux
> Firefox and so ignored all Konqueror users?
Yes, it's one among many other reasons. I wrote an article about it several
months ago.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/print.php/3687616
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