LINUX BUSINESS

[Chris Wallis]

Talking about alternate standards, I was today trying to surf a website that
was Lynx unfriendly was all gfx with no alt tags. I think there should be
more support for other OS's around out and about. I think this will change
hopefully when Linux finds it self on more and more users desktops with KDE2
and the like. We are getting there slowly from my point of view but at least
we are moving towards equal footing with windows.

Could incompatible webpages that do render in IE and don't render Mozilla
for Linux could that beach freedom of information act ? (Case in point SOGOC
getting sued over webpages that was not accessible to the disabled?)

It pretty mind boogleing thinking about all the legal stuff if you are a
government dept or any company for that matter.

-Wal
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Martijn van Oosterhout
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2001 14:27
To: Rasjid Wilcox
Cc: Jim Watson; linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: LINUX BUSINESS


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:08:29PM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> I have been meaning to question the ATO about this for a while, as I
believe
> that much of the software is written in Java, and I think it is mostly the
> install and configuration that is platform specific, but I could be wrong.
> Anyway, I was planning to include the cost of VMWare as a deduction in
next
> years tax return as a result.

Well, I found it worked OK under Wine. Not great but usable. However, the
upload failed miserably due to some missing msvc library. Even my normal
windows installation didn't have the version it was looking.

In the end I just filled in a normal form. It did give me an idea how much I
was going to get back though.

> > My question is this: can anyone point me to a
> > lobby GROUP i could join in CANBERRA that will try
> > and get the govt information and others to be
> > accessable to USERS of different platforms such as
> > LINUX?

On the whole, lobby groups for IT related stuff don't seem to be
particularly common. The EFA is good but it sometimes seems hard to keep up
with the issues.

--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org>
http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.