Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[arthur <arthur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 October 2001 10:10 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2001 10:30 pm, Martin Webster wrote:
> > Yes, I think we are. ;-) Don't even want to go to MSN.com; it's the
> > precedence that this may set (albeit M$ seem to be backtracking already).
>
> Here's a thought .. today they closed off MSN.com to non MS systems.  What
> if they do that next year with .NET to anything that isn't Microsoft, and
> all of a sudden you find you can't do online banking, or shopping, etc, etc
> unless you're running XP.   Scarey huh !

There is another precedent. The British government gave a contract to M$ to 
set up their "e-government" (an initiative to allow the citizenry to interact 
with the govt via the Internet). Guess what? the only browser that would work 
was M$ IE. Our technically illiterate government took some weeks to 
understand the problem before they could be persuaded to get M$ to reverse 
that decision. 
Once is a glitch - twice is a corporate policy.