__/ [ Philip ] on Thursday 22 February 2007 16:30 \__
> http://www133.americanexpress.com/osbn/Landing/SDOTnC.asp
>
> "In order to receive and retain the Electronic Communications, you
> *must* have a valid e-mail address and a computer equipped as described
> below. ...
>
> Internet access and a browser that supports 128-bit encryption such as
> Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Netscape® Communicator®
>
> An operating system meeting the below minimum requirements for either
> Microsoft® Windows® or Macintosh®:
> Windows®
> Windows® 95 or higher or Windows® NT 4.0 or higher
> 486 or higher processor
> 16 MB (32 MB recommended of access memory (RAM))
> 20 MB of free hard drive space
> Or
> Macintosh®
> System 7.5.5 or higher
> 32 MB of available access memory (RAM)
> 16 MB of available hard drive space"
>
> What is it about Mozilla browsers and Linux that make these IT
> department ignore them. It's not number of users, Mozilla browser have
> 20% of the seats.
>
> I suspect it is the lack of a single for-profit entity they can deal with.
>
> Phil
Corporate Fight Against Open Source
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| Remember during the Dot Com boom when sites used to display which
| browser you should use in order to best utilize their website?
| Quaint, annoying and even a little narrow minded. Those of us who
| have been yearning for a blast from the past will be thrilled to
| learn that Wal-Mart is apparently doing this in the year 2007.
| Wait, it gets better...
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2468&Itemid=449
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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| "After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last
| year .. OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation"
|
| "We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of
| complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.' .. Silly or
| no, each complaint that's filed really slows down the process."
|
| "the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about
| who had filed the complaint .. in some cases, proprietary software vendors
| were lodging the complaints.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
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