On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:39 -0600, Scott Granneman wrote: > http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095 > > This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer > users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple > Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or > interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, > Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from > any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications > online in this nation must be done with Active X controls. > > Where is this nation? > > South Korea. > > read the whole thing. it'll make you angry.
Also worth reading this article, some of the things that can happen to a monoculture when the dominant OS upgrades. <http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200702/200702060016.html> "Meanwhile, some financial institutions and Internet portals are working on their websites to make them compatible with the new OS, as Internet banking and electronic payment services were found to be unavailable on computers that operate Windows Vista." Ironically putting Windows Vista users in the same boat as the Macintosh and Linux users, at least for a little while. t. -- *** Propositions arrived at purely by logical means are completely empty as regards reality. - Albert Einstein *** _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
