On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 15:47, Omer Zak wrote:
> First of all, I am taking the liberty of renaming the thread's Subject to
> reflect the current reality.

Good! :-)

> I have a simple suggestion:
> 
> As a pretty good approximation, "no one" knows about Linux, but "everyone"
> knows about Mac.
> 
> So an effort focused at getting Israeli Web masters to make their Web
> sites accessible to Mac by modifying the Web sites to comply with
> standards is likely to be more successful than efforts having other foci.

I would do it differently - I would avoid completely mentioned Operating
Systems and other "exotic" terms and go for the"Use Standards!" angle
instead.

Remember that Bank Leumi, for example, is government owned, which means
they are subject to some interesting legal limitations.

Also, I know that at certain conditions it is forbidden to condition the
giving of one service in the use of another. For example, Coca Cola is
prohibited from telling store owners - we will only sell you coca cola
if you our beer.

I have no idea if and how such a claim can be brought here, but it is
worth thinking about it. For example, can it be claimed that since one
of the biggest customers of the bank has a monopoly like position in the
software market the bank should not condition it's services in used said
big customer software?

I have no idea, but it's a line of thought looking into.

Again, it's not about Linux (or Mac). it's about the freedom to choose.

Gilad.

-- 
 Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
 http://benyossef.com 

 Q: "What do you do if your Linux box goes down?" 
 A: "Sit around in the dark until the power comes back on" 



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