On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Nagarjuna G wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[email protected]> wrote: >> The French government has joined the German government and suggested its >> citizens stay away from Microsoft's Internet explorer. This is a welcome >> move considering the security risk Microsoft's Internet Explorer creates. >> Similar action may be taken against other Microsoft products as well. >> >> In addition to warning citizens to stay away from Internet Explorer, >> governments should also consider blocking Microsoft from bundling Windows >> operating systems with PCs. >> >> http://katonda.com/blog/548/why-governments-should-ban-microsoft-internet-explorer >> > > good one, see my blog post at http://gnowgi.org/ >
I was recently telling a Govt-sector employee about these decisions in the EU. He retorted "We can't all use GNU/Linux ". The point being that alternatives like Firefox and Google Chrome are not that well known. Also, software that is free (as in price) in the Windows is taken with great suspicion. In the corporate environment, users don't have rights to install tools/software on their systems. Head of IT/Network Admin takes the call. People want to switch, but they aren't allowed or aren't aware. Surely, we must all take efforts in popularizing and spreading the word. Especially so when news items like these come out... Cheers, Amol Hatwar _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
