2007/12/13, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 13/12/2007, M Henri Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a matter of fact, Dotan, we here in Sweden lie slightly behind Europe > as > > a whole with regard to understanding our «options». In the event that > use of > > Firefox can be considered to be an adequate metric. According to XiTi's > > figures from September this year (* http://tinyurl.com/ypptoy*), some > 26.1 % > > use Firefox here, while for Europe as a whole, the corresponding figure > is > > 27.7 %. A greater proportion of Swedes use FF than is the case in other > > Scandinavian countries, but the Finns are far ahead of us - in Finland > FF > > use amounts to some 45.4 % of the total. I have no idea what the > situation > > is in Israel or the occupied territories.... > > > > Henri > > > > I'd hazard a guess that Firefox usage here is below 5 percent. The > only Fx users that I know are those that I've converted, and the few > Linux users that I've met. MS runs very deep here. Pirated MS, mind > you. > > As for the territories, I've never seen a computer in a Palestinian > home. Granted, I don't claim to have seen a meaningful representation > of Palestinian demographics, but I've noticed a complete lack of > computers. Televisions are common, however. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Thanks for your estimates, Dotan ! As you know, there are those who argue - persuasively, to my mind - that a certain amount of «piracy» is part and parcel of the Microsoft business model (*http://tinyurl.com/223llt*), but I don't wish to open that particular can of worms on this forum. To show how matters are here in these northern climes, I can mention a letter I wrote the other day to a young (I presume) man at the leading morning daily in Sweden, who had written an article in which he recommended «Office» programmes be included in computer purchases for (or by) «students» and/or «families». I dared to point out that alternatives to Microsoft Office existed which did not involve the payment of costly royalities to that firm, but was immediately rebuffed with a reply to the effect that «the term 'Office' programme in daily conversation has now come to mean both Microsoft Office and other office suites». That is hardly the impression I have gained from teaching basic computer knowledge to retirees here in Stockholm ; generally speaking, my students are unaware that «computers» and «Microsoft» are not synonymous expressions, or that the internet and «Internet Explorer» are not precisely the same thing. Perhaps our Johnny Rosenberg would like to chime in with a brief note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on how the term «'Office' programme» is interpreted in Sweden today ?... Henri
