Quoting Gilboa Davara, from the post of Wed, 11 Feb: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:27 +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > > I was happily amazed to find out that the new revamped site of Bank Leumi > > fully works using Opera on Linux. I also tested FF, and it seems to work > > fine > > too (including viewing cheques images, graphs etc.). > > > > So long IE in Crossover, and thanks for all the sites :) > > I must have asked them about 10,000 times and almost gave up hope. > Now I can finally remove ies4linux!
I think we should send them a really fancy letter with a few dozen signatures, saying thanks for finally fixing it. I'm not cynical. they got "nags" and negative rap from us all the years, they need to get appreciation too. Newspaper reporters and people who bump into FOSS zealots in Ynet talkbacks usually (understandably) see us as a bunch of complaining elitist techno-snobs. I say we should show our other side and give some kudos once in a while when someone does the RIGHT thing. (In other words, they think we are Hammas, we need to show them we are not even Fatah, maybe Hada"sh at worst :-) Even if it's late and partial, we can send them positive remarks for congratulating them on how far they've come instead of only (or first) complaining about what still needs to be done. So how about if a bunch of us write Leumi some "thank you" notes, or send them a big fancy "Thank you" kind of thing with 30 signatures, so they can frame and hang on their wall, and later we could get companies to get their sites corrected and we better rap in the press. We can even join hands the some computer usability SIG or ISOC, ILA or some adult computer literacy NGO that was helped by this. We should try to try and make it a bigger, more impressive gesture. Is it corny? - sure, CEOs love corny... Is it a bit kitch and looks a little out of integrity? - Could be, but the long-term benefits are effective dialogs with the next businesses that run broken sites. - Ideally, In time, such endoresment might be actually catch on, and since Hamakor won't be selling them for kickbacks, companies will actually have to fix sites to get one :-) Anyone cares to take this further? Ori Idan, are you doing any PR of this kind today? Ira. (and, as if often does, my random sig pulls out a bull's eye :-) -- Service with a Smile Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
