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Israeli Ministry of Commerce Picks OO.org Over MS
CaptainT writes "According to this article in The Register Microsoft office was replaced by Open Office in the Israeli employment agency.
MS scorns the defection...
This follows current Israeli antitrust legislation and the recent release by IBM and Sun of Hebrew support in OpenOffice.org. Is the Israeli Defence Force going to follow?"
hm... I wander what the percentage of articles on the front page that are dedicated to "they adopted somehting opensource!" there are.
The first thing I had to do was code up a linker/wrapper between the apt-get and dselect text interface libraries to the Hebrew libraries present on Debian. This took a few weeks, but with by judicious use of the LISP hooks I'd placed in my own private source tree for apt-get a year or two previously, it was no real problem. The next thing to do was to convert the apt-get and dselect command syntax to reading right to left as is done in Hebrew, rather than the normal Western left to right. One of the jokers in my software team suggested setting up a mirror in front of the screen...and then adding it to the apt.sources file (gettit...a mirror!!), but we were able to get the department to extend our contract by a month (they were pretty tight for cash), and within the 30 days we'd re-written all the low-level display routines in dselect so that they outputted text in the correct orientation.
Needless to say, the system is still operational even now, and they don't have any problems at all managing their software rollouts on Debian. It wouls not surprise me at all if the Israeli Governemt tried to adopt another similar, final solution. As they say, apt-get shalom!
Israel population: 6 million
United States population: 290 million
As long as the United States don't disown allegiance to Microsoft, Microsoft is safe.
Now that you mention it, it's quite absurd that we have a war on drugs for exactly the same reasons.
"Drugs make certain people irrational and prone to violence and crime. People have been using drugs throughout the history." Now, replace the word drug with religion and it still holds true. If so, why the hell can't we crack down on religion just as we deal with drugs?
The owls are not what they seem
is a religion too. The attitude of "If you believe in a supreme being you are stupid and I am a genious." Science can answer all problems to include the meaning of life. Atheism is the religion of pride and arrogance.
I bet Arafat would just love it if Israel Open Source'd the construction specs for its A-Bombs under a GNU license ....
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Like 8 people will be using it then?
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come home, set them on fire." - George Carlin
You said, "Look, the zionists (not all) jews realised that jews were not wanted anywhere at all."
This is not true. There are more Jews in New York than Israel. Although their relationships are not perfect there, they are wanted.
I'm an American. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arab. I don't live near New York. I'm not saying I know any answers. I know that many Jews are very well educated, and many are brilliant. But I've observed that, when considering violence, Jewish IQ drops to a very low value.
By getting Americans into a fight with Arabs, the Jews have assured that, eventually, the truth will become known to American taxpayers, and Jews will become unwelcome in America. The Jews have been making themselves unwelcome for 3200 years. When will it stop?
The truth I am speaking of: The U.S. government gives $5.5 billion each year, about $1000 for every Jewish man, woman, and child in Israel, to Israelis for the purpose of killing Arabs. According to recent interviews on TV of the King of Jordan and the Iranian ambassador, U.S. government support for violence against Arabs is 90% of the reason for the terrorism against the United States. Most Americans don't know this. When average Americans discover that they are paying for Jewish violence, they will revolt.
In return for American hospitality, Jews have helped corrupt the U.S. government. Put yourself in the place of a non-Jewish American. Would you want such a powerful and powerfully destructive small group in your country? Those who call themselves "Zionists" are helping history repeat itself.
Nonono. The person commenting clearly dropped a few words. It should be: "the features of Office 97, debugged and at their best"
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
( Koran search for Judah, Judea, or Gaza. Your boolean query produced no results. Hmmm)