On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:13, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting ik, from the post of Thu, 28 Oct: > > I wonder ... Most Open Source people, have a hi-tech position. > > Are you sure? based on what? for instance I'm an "open source person" by > some definitions and I'm not in Hightech. Thats why I Said most :) > > > Hi-Tech consider to be one of the biggist income of the market... > > true that. I miss my hightech days... So you are a type of .... just in "retirement" ;) > > > Isn't there a way to make banks to support non IE products with just > > the pressure of "Open Source people will be recommended to work only > > with banks that does support Mozilla etc..." and to apply it also to > > business as well ? > > let's see... > > I believe that under the odd category of "open course people" fall about > 2000-4000 people in Israel. maybe about 100 of those are actually > reading what hamakor's members have to say, of those about half are > still in highscool or the army and the word "income" makes their mouths > water, of the other half not all of us are make huge salaries either. You don't need an high income, but people that enter money once a month to their account... > > so you get an item in the paper. "40 angry spoiled hightech people want > the banks to support web standards or they will close their accounts!". > this will undoubtedly lead to a wide manhunt and massive firings at > Bank Israel for not putting the squeeze on the banks in the matter, a > parlament discussion will arise and change legislation as well. at the > final throws of complete chaos and near-bloodshed, Ido is elected prime > minister and makes XHTML the new government-enforced mode of electronic > communication, a whole hacker subculture of illegal XHTML2HTML apps > floods the IRC channels. the end. I like the thought of "Ido is elected prime minister and makes XHTML the new government-enforced mode of electronic communication, a whole hacker subculture of illegal XHTML2HTML apps floods the IRC channels. the end." but I'm not a poletition ;)
But think about it seriously for a second... we as customers have allot more power then we think we have... You yourself wants to move to a "better" bank... Thats a consumer decision for the same reason I written, but less sarcastic.. :) Ido -- Save the whales. Collect the whole set. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
