The petition is a very good idea, but we should get it organised in a way that it can be send to other sites too, Here, in Belgium, a LOT of sites are not open to Linux :-( Maybe something to put on the site/servers of linux.org? I CC'd the webmaster this message. [To webmaster@linux.org: "A lot of talk about websites that are inaccessible with Linux has been going arround here (on the suse-linux-e list) for some time now. Shockwave.com is just one of the latest. Regarding this issue, Ben Rosenberg brought up the idea of signing a petition. Because this concerns all users of all distributions, it would not be appropriate for this to be limited to one distribution, therefor I'm sending this to you. Is it possible for linux.org to host such a petition? Or do you know any organisation that can? Any help on your part would be appreciated."] Kind regards Guy Van Sanden
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On 22/04/2001, 20:29:04, Ben Rosenberg
* Matt Banta (tie_guy_matt@yahoo.com) [010422 11:24]: =>Hi! => =>If you try to goto shockwave.com, it won't even let =>you onto the site because you don't use an approved =>OS. Yet shockwave is certainly supported by linux. In [snip]
Nope, they do server side queries of your browser and it ident's your OS..if you tell Konqueror to ident itself as IE5 under Win98..you get in no problem. It's their servers. We should get together a petition to let them know what a bunch of morons they are. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.