On Thu, Oct 28, 2004, ik wrote about "Re: Banks, Mozilla and life on a stick.": > I wonder ... Most Open Source people, have a hi-tech position. > Hi-Tech consider to be one of the biggist income of the market... > 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 ?
No. Just like any (too) big business, the people with the incentives to preserve you as a customer, and people which have to act are different people. Several months ago, I went to my banker at Bank Leumi and told her that unless their site returns to work on Linux (it does now, by the way), I will be forced to find a different bank. She was upset, and said they value my business but she personally never even heard of Linux (she asked if it's a type of computer, and then asked me what "Internet Explorer" or even a "Browser" was). All she could offer is that I call the BLL Internet people, right from her desk. We did, and all those guys did was basically say "Yes, we don't support Linux, and we have no plans to even if it's just trivial fixes - we simply don't care about you people". My banker simply couldn't do anything about the situation. She said if it was about commissions, about investment plans, the stock market, or anything about this sort - she could help me, but she's both completely uneducated in computing, and powerless to help me in these areas. So unless someone high enough in a bank that is *above* the Internet group cares about you (and I guess I'm not *that* valuable a customer), you're out of luck. Anyway, BLL does work now on Mozilla, at least the one I run (1.4.2): check out https://hb.leumi.co.il/ -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Oct 28 2004, 14 Heshvan 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer without Microsoft is like a http://nadav.harel.org.il |chocolate cake without mustard. ================================================================= 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]
