If your a user of the BBC’s Web Services and you run Linux, now is the time to stand up and be counted. I use linux every day as do I use the BBC’s Website.

In a recent statement, it was said that out of the 17.1 million users, only 400 to 600 of them run linux. I can’t believe this is true, nor can many others.

It could be any number of things, including someone getting the wrong number of zeros or a mistake when running the report.  Of these 17.1 million users, 5% are Mac and 400 to 600 are Linux.  I wonder, how many are windows, and how many are “other”…  This could well be where some of the linux users are.  The assumption is made that the rest are all Windows users, but that may not be true.

You can read the article here, and sign the petition to say you run linux and visit the bbc website here.

Stand up and be counted as a BBC Linux User, and help enable access to new streaming and download services (like iPlayer) under linux.