On Thursday 26 May 2011 at 19:01:40 (GMT+2) "Uri Even-Chen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi people, > > I recently had to pay taxes to the tax authorities in Israel (income > tax). I think it's amazing that the tax authorities website supports > only MSIE. I called their support and asked, they said they don't > support Google Chrome or Firefox - only MSIE. I'm using Google > Chrome and Firefox with all other websites, including my bank, but > only with the tax authorities website I have to use MSIE. I have a > bug/virus in MSIE and it took me more than an hour and I tried at > least 6 times with 2 computers and 3 people on their support until I > could pay my taxes. Shame on them! Maybe the Israeli Internet > association should do something about it (revoke their .gov > domain!)... Why amazing? Israel is probably the most MS addicted country on the planet. Nowhere else do people look at you as at a lunatic when they learn that you are using something "exotic" (OS/2 or Linux). Once, years ago, I was told in a Bezeq business office that I was speaking out of ignorance, because _every_ computer has Windows. In contrast, last month in Kiev, the driver who brought me into town from the airport glanced at the screen of my laptop (which does not say "Linux"), and said to me, "Oh, you're using Linux". There has already been a lot of talk here about efforts to get governmental agencies and quasi-governmental ones to loosen up and stop acting as though they are a subsideary of Microsoft. I've said before that the right address for improving this state of afairs is the State Comptroller. That is still true. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
