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Israel Suspends MS Office Purchases For Now
case_igl writes "The Seattle Times is reporting 'that in an apparent showdown over price, Israel's government has suspended purchases of Microsoft Office software and is encouraging the development of an open-source alternative.' The Finance Ministry has cooperated with Sun Microsystems and IBM in designing the Hebrew-language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. The spokeswoman said the government was unhappy with Microsoft's refusal to sell individual programs from its standard Office package, which includes e-mail, spreadsheet and word-processing applications. Microsoft representatives in Israel did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment." The Associated Press article is carried on many other sites as well.
powerpoint is for retards. you don't deserve OOo.
Israel was on the offensive since 1948. It was a state founded on terrorism, and has not given up the use of terrorism since.
Israel attacked Egypt. That's all that happened. They attacked Egypt in '56 and they attacked Egypt in '67. Egypt attacked Israel in '72.
Israel has not offered the Palestinians a state, they have offered the Palestinians the right to starve.
The airliner shot down was not over the Indian Ocean, it was over the Persian Gulf. And the Iranian Pilot was attempting to goad the US ship. It was his bad luck it was shot down.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Well they had plenty of time to carefully study Nazi tactics. They were very, um, effective tactics to say the least, so it's no surprise the current militarized gov't is taking the steps they are.
Maybe they'd cool it if the US cut out the 6 billion in foreign aid (75% of that is earmarked for US arms purchases).
I dont know of many things in which Germans and Iranians cooprate in a grass root level.
Weapons technology?
Good grief. This was modded as insightful?
Golda Maer stated it best.
"We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."
Pull down a transcript some time of Palestinian saturday morning children's shows.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
(1) Are you claiming that the murders were part of a Palestinian conspiracy? Because usually, the people promising peace are not the people doing the murdering. Is that the case here? "The Palestinians" are no more a united, homogenous group than are "The Israeli Jews".
I assume this is w.r.t. the murders since Oslo, not Hebron 1929.
And yes that is exactly what I'm claiming; in fact, the PA's own Fatah troops are very active in genocide-bombings and other kinds of terror acts.
And BTW, although Arafat is at the head of the organization, like I've said, I don't believe this deception and murder is a personal decision or act; It is a collective Palestinian behaviour.
(2) Why were the Hebron settlers murdered, and were their murderers brought to justice by any common, civilised sense of the term?
Here, I assume you are refering to the 1929 massacre.
It should be noted that the then British mandate in Israel was far from adamant in protecting the lives of the occupied people. Not that there was much evidence to identify the lynchers individually anyway. In any case, the country was then far from what is today called "civilized".
Working for necessity's mother.