On 03 17, 07, at 11:04 AM, Roberto Verzola wrote:
The key here is government (possibly business too, but really,
government).
If the govt shifts, and they truly have all the reason to do so,
except the
commission-ers, the demand for Linux/GNU/FOSS knowhow will pull the
schools
to offer courses.
heh. you know innovation in the world is usually spurred by military
and universities and lately corporations. i really HATE the notion
that we should rely on government. how utterly ineffective and
utterly clueless most governments, particularly ours about things
like innovation and great ideas. its up to users in the private
sector to do the changing, to innovate. do it ourselves, isn't that
the manta of open source?
any solution or innovation is spurred by need. do banks have the
need? my best guess is that they probably looked at it and thought
that its "too difficult" to "support" or the managers aren't
"comfortable" with open source or "afraid" of it. after all doesn't
i.e. have majority market share?
bottom line is--- its up to users of open source to keep
evangelizing. when we meet colleagues and discuss best practices, we
should keep on evangelizing, how great open source has been to us,
how liberating, how empowering it is for users. if you use firefox
and access these sites, we can always use the user agent plugin. its
a great hack, sure. however, it doesn't really encourage these banks
to write more universal code for their sites right? i think i read it
a few posts down this thread that we should petition these banks to
support our browser, then i think that is a great idea.
just my two centavos worth.
cheers.
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