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September 26, 2009

Ubuntu for girls

Mark Shuttleworth has kicked up a bit of a storm by apparently saying that Linux was "hard to explain to girls". There is an open letter post about this on the Geek Feminism Blog, followed by a hell of a lot of comments on the subject. It seems to boil down to 'he didn't really mean it like that', 'it's not okay to say that kind of thing, even if you didn't mean it like that' and 'has anyone seen this video or a transcript anyway?'

Anyway, I've made a little graphic that Ubuntu could use for their 11.10 release if they wanted to tackle this issue. :)

(Please note this was produced with a high level of sarcasm and irony. If you are offended, please look up those words before commenting!)

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September 5, 2009

How do you turn 3.9million internet pirates into 7million? A lesson in statistics.

Where the British Government's official figure on the level of illegal filesharing in the UK came from:

  • Survey 1,176 people
  • 136 admit of filesharing - that's 11.6%
  • Beef that up a bit, some must have been lying: 16.3% sounds good.
  • Let's assume there are 40million people in the country with net access
  • (Actual figure according to the ONS: 33.9m)
  • That's a shocking 7million pirates in the UK!
  • (Actual figure: 3.9million)

And guess where the figure came from: Government > Forrester Research > Jupiter Research > Commissioned by the BPI, the music trade body. This stuff drives me batshit.

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