Census 2006 -- Linux is OK after all

[Robert Brockway]

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Alex Beamish wrote:

> Ha!
>
> "In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction for
> Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006."
>
> http://www22.statcan.ca/ccr02/ccr02_003_e.htm
>
> This seems to support the hypothesis that barring Linux browsers from taking
> the census was a bad decision -- or at least, not one based on reality.
> That's pretty cool.

The fact that there were enough people who wanted to use Linux to access 
the site and went on to complain is very telling about the use of Linux as 
well.

Not so long ago there weren't that many people using Linux on the desktop 
and we were often out in the cold.

Rob

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