latly universaties went to use britanica's high learning system,
this system doesn't work with any other client rather than ie
and since it's about to be used as the main school system
it would limit the use of linux in universaties desktop and in
students home.

ie: here in huji's cs we don't even have windows machines for students
which already starting to create problems.
and I think less unix lover universaties and department might reconcider
install linux or anything else beside windows, which is preety sad
especialy now when with open office lyx and wine solved a lot of the
barriers people had with using linux.

I see 2 ways of action

1) Finding a fs replacement to the high learning system.
2) Convince britanica to support non ie clients

1 - might be nice for universaties/schools which still didn't invest the
money and man power for integrating high learning into the system so it
might work for schools which check for this kind of system.

2 - sounds like a good solution but I think that high learning uses
activeX stuff in their webpage.(anyone can confirm for sure?)
and I think it would be hard to make them give up on it in favor for
something else. They also deal with big originaztions and not people,
so they probebly be harder to pressure in the way of pettions.

I think it's highly importent topic cause the way it looks this system
might speard to the entire education system, which might create even
bigger problem for anyone not using ie bigger problem than hebrew word
docs did in the last few years rating non windows users as second class.

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel




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