And how will that help us to achieve anything, if at all? "Black listing"
a site will most likely publish it (wait until your list is found in some
newspaper..), and will not help with reducing the problem. The opposite
is the truth - it may increase hateness, and mind-blocking.
Do you think that the webmasters and the owners of the site will care? As long
as it brings them 90% of the population (sad, but true), they won't
(necessarily) care much about your list.
Moreover, you will have to notice this:
1) You will have to prove that for a specific site - ANY browser, from ANY
version which exists over there in Linux cannot see the site properly.
2) You will need to update your list whenever there's a change.
Nevertheless, when there's a change (to Linux) it can be changed back
sometime (into not supporting Linux, intentionally or not) for some
reason, vice versa.
3) Vicious owners can sue you for some kind of "hotzaat diba", just
because you "black list" them. Nobody said that you wouldn't win (about it
not being "hotzaat diba"), but I am not sure that you would want that
headache.
4) You won't contribute eliminating the problem. I believe that I have
already mentioned that.
Instead, you can do the following:
1) Be nice, and politely tell them that their site doesn't support Linux
(actually, it's not true. It doesn't support the browers which *you* have
*checked*, with your specific software and architecture installed).
2) Suggest to help them to make their site compatible with Linux. If they
are not going to care about this, you will have to do that free of charge.
Once again - your responsibility. And I am not sure that you would like to
do that free of charge.
3) Here is an idea: Create a group of "Windows-to-Linux technicians",
who will help in converting (and improving), both for free and for money (you
can even earn from it, if you do it the right way). Make this group
professional, and don't call them "missioners" or "revolutionists". Just
make a team which its purpose is to do that work, and that work only.
4) Don't black-list anybody. Nobody owes you anything and nobody has to
satisfy your OS you're working on (take this in a good spirit :).
Love the problem.. don't hate it.
Just something to think about. :)
Adir.
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yotam Medini wrote:
>
> Let's establish a 'black list' of Israeli sites not supporting
> Linux browsers. A specific category (dark-black) could be for sites
> whose main category is about computers.
>
> Let me suggest a candidate:
>
> www.ksp.co.il
>
> -- yotam
>
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