Census 2006 -- Linux is OK after all

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> 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.


I have just completed my census.  I had to upgrade Java, even though I
already had better than they required.  I'm running SUSE 10.0 & Mozilla
1.7.13

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