Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (171 mails)

[Tim Pizey <timp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul, 

Your site 
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/rfc/rfc_document.asp?docnum=429
is completely broken.

It does not display in Netscape 4.7 
(Missing end table tag would be my guess), 

When I tried to post a comment using Konqueror I got:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' 

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 11: Incorrect syntax near 
't'. 

/rfc/rfc_document.asp, line 168

The comment I was trying to post:
Hi, 

I hope the irony of your site being broken is not lost on you!

The link to this document contains spaces, which your Microsoft ASP driven 
site gives a 400 error.

The attribution of theses comments is also broken, all appearing to come from 
pukpai.

This is a nice illustration of the claim that Microsoft software doesn't work.
There are however bigger reasons why the Government should not use 
proprietory formats.
Unlike private business the government has a duty to the citizens to 
store data in a format which is open to inspection by members of the public 
and in a format which can be expected to last hundreds of years, rather 
than the few years which any one of the Microsoft formats has lasted to date. 

Hope this helps
Tim Pizey 
(not Paul Ukpai)


So to sum up - if you use Microsoft then your website won't work.

cheers
timp