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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: JamesR on October 15, 2003, 10:16:39 AM
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"The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative."
Read more at The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33365.html) ...
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this is from The Register, a techie pub from the UK, this is NOT from 'register.com', which is a domain registrar - please correct.
kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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Corrected... Thanks Kevin!
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Kewl
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Isreal? :roll:
the spelling mistake is now corrected
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Wowie :-)
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The headline is a tad inaccurate - Israel has suspended all government contracts with MS.
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Doesn't seem like a ban as much as a change of business strategy...
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can they please ban it in all of europe soon=? ,
this is very cool....hmm
though 1 downside.. life of brian was banned in norway from 1978-1995 , though it was banned...but 75% of the young people had seen it anyway..bear in mind...this was before internet times!...oh i saw it in 1988 or something :D
so this might mean using m$ products will be cool ;(
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life of brian was banned in norway from 1978-1995
Why on earth would anyone want to ban "Life of Brian"? :-?
Perhaps it just was a "dålig Norge-historia"? :-P ;-)
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Hey, it was banned in Swansea as well! :-)
Anyway, I don't think MS OfficeXP 2003 will become "cult" even if it's banned by a few governments ;-)
I am using OO.org's spreadsheet editor right now, and I must say it's working very well. People keep telling me I should use gnumeric because it has better Excel import, but I made the original document in OO.org, so why on EARTH would I convert it to a different format now? :-)
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@granny
Nope! På DVD'n så gör man reklam med det:
"Filmen som är så rolig så att den förbjöds i Norge!"
:lol:
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Why on earth would anyone want to ban "Life of Brian"?
Maybe it was belated disgust at the Norway-related opening subtitles to the Holy Grail? :-)
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Nope, Life of Brian was considered blasphemy. That's all the reason that part of the auhtorities needed back then :-)
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We are SO behind the times...
Come on everybody, lets follow Israels example!
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Come on everybody, lets follow Israels example!
Blame everything on the Palestinians?
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*reads article*
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Ohhh ;-) :lol:
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Nope, Life of Brian was considered blasphemy.
Presumably they haven't seen Dogma then :-)
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Why on earth would anyone want to ban "Life of Brian"?
Cause it was to strong for the religious chrisitans :-P
It was allowed again in 1995 but had a big sticker on it saying it had nothing to do with jesus or anything... lol
This is why i hate religions.. they enforce their twistedviews/restrictions on the rest of us....
They are now trying to ban alcohol and violent games, but that is a whole different story... sigh
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So that's 2 countries that have bid Microsoft goodbye. (Germany, too, yes? Or was that just a city?)
190(?) to go...
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As it was already mentioned b4, it's only suspension of contracts and license renewal. IMHO, they are not able to unstick from office, not to mention windows:-( Sounds like wishful thinking...
Jack.