Hi,
Interesting discussion. Here's my take on the points raised:
- The intersection of Mozilla/Firefox/FOSS advocates and Bank Discount
customers is probably too small to make a real difference in the bank's
bottom line.
- The subject is, IMHO, too esoteric for the mass media (e.g., "Bulldozer")
to take an interest.
- I think that the "carrot" approach has more promise. The trick is finding
the right person in the bank to stick^H^H^H^H^Hoffer the carrot, ideally the
IT manager?
- Perhaps the carrot can be sweetened: In addition to the technical reasons
others have pointed out, the appropriate NPO (Hamakor?) can offer to
recommend standards-compliant banks to their members and community? Such a
recommendation could be spread far and wide, not only on the NPO's site...
- Of course, Bank Discount is only a specific instance. The approach can be
generalized and applied to other Israeli IE-centric websites (I have a
little list...).
Cheers,
Rony
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry.R
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:23 PM
> To: Linux-IL
> Subject: Re: פנייתך לבנק דיסקונט מתאריך 28/02/2005
>
> On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:34, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Kovriga, Gregory wrote:
> > >Would it be legal?
> >
> > Is skipping school legal? (no, unless you're over 8th grade).
> >
> skip
> > So, while I'll certainly ask a lawyer, I don't think it's
> going to be a
> > problem.
> >
> > Shachar
>
> Maybe it would be interesting to bring to Discount's
> attention the fact that
> in their weekly columns in the Jpost during Jan and Feb both
> David Shamah
> (Surfing the Net) and Janis Joseph (WWW4U) have been
> advocating the use of
> Firefox for MS users.
> So it is not just Linux users who are affected.
> Maybe showing them the prevailing mood in the States where
> literally millions
> are moving from IE to Firefox, for security and for the
> advantages, might
> get them to "wake" up.
> Barry.
>
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