On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Krishnakant Mane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Newsreports are here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8465038.stm Thanks Roopesh
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