I think it's just your run-of-the-mill Israeli stubbornness. (And I mean that in a good way). "MY website is good enough! Why should I change it?" This was actually the excuse I heard from more than one IT person when I suggested that they modify their pages a little bit so that they will be viewable in something other than IE6. And in some cases I even offered to help... But I feel for you Uri. I have to deal with many sites like this, and it infuriates me. One organization (who shall remain nameless) even offered to buy me a legal copy of Windows rather than make any changes.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Stan Goodman <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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