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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.
I guess they don't welcome their old ms-overlord then...
You gotta watch them jews - they'll beat you down to the lowest price every time!
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Disclaimer: I am jewish.
Can't agree on much (Israeli security concerns, real or imagined, are behind much of the Bush Administration's hard-line approach to Iran).
But at least they both agree that Free/Open Source Software is good! Maybe this is an opertunity for peace down the road!
Laughing? Don't. Think of it this way-- what better way to gain additional respect for someone you think probably just wants to annihiliate or repress your people than workign with them on development of open source software?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
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.
Off the record, she refered to Bill Gates as a shlemil, and said they weren't going to take any more of his schmutz. They are tired of schlepping his insecure software around, paying far too much of their hard-earned mezuma for his khazeray.
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
I think it will help spread the word
Spreading Word is the last thing it'll do...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
What I don't understand is why all these foreigners can't just use English like the USA and UK. It would seem infinitely easier to interact with computers if they just used English like everybody else.
In the Golan Heights today, Microsoft employees and shareholders threw rocks and bottles at Isreali soldiers, who fired back with rubber-coated 8x10 glossy photos of Linus Torvalds, injuring one Microsoft employee in the left upper arm. In response to the violence, the Isreali government ordered pizzas delivered and watched reruns of South Park and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Yes, but they did get an F for computer security from the House of Representatives. Getting security advice from the class dunce doesn't strike me as a great idea. If the DOD, another F recipient, doesn't like OpenBSD, perhaps we should have a second look at it too.
Think global, act loco
am I the only one here who would honestly love to see microsoft improve their software and licensing rather than just failing and being consumed by GNU/Linux/FOSS?
Yes.
fuck you.
German women are huge and wear thick knee high socks and participate in annual races where they carry their husbands on their backs and/or see how far they can throw them and then drink beer from huge glasses.
Thankyou.