On Wednesday 20 January 2010 09:42 AM, Amol Hatwar wrote:
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.
Very good decision by the french and german government.
Is there any link for this official information?
In addition to warning citizens to stay away from Internet Explorer,
governments should also consider blocking Microsoft from bundling Windows
operating systems with PCs.
If not at least with due respect to the fight against OOXML, governments
should ban the use of those standards on a massive scale.
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 ".
And they were not aware that ff is available on windows?
The point being that alternatives like Firefox and Google Chrome are not that
well known.
not that well known? Was that a joke?
I know millions of people who don't even know what is free software or
"open source " as some people call it, are using firefox and vlc media
player.
Perhaps the situation is that such softwares are not popular in context
of free and open source.
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.
The only one question which corporates ask is "how can we get support for some thing
that is developed in a highly unorganised manner with developers spread all over the
plase?"
I am sure sysadmins and other decision makes are aware of free software,
but what they don't know is that commertial support (to which they are
so addicted to) is very much available.
Surely, we must all take efforts in popularizing and spreading the word.
Especially so when
news items like these come out...
Please provide link for the german and french news.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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