Code Monkey by Matach - Outrageous!

Code Monkey by Matach - Outrageous!

Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda ladypine at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 20:49:34 IST 2015


Clarification - when I said "we" I meant our family, and in particular our
9 year old daughter who has been using this website since first grade. I am
not affiliated with Ofek in any way :)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
wrote:

> I'm pretty sure it's the design....
> It would be cool if you offered multiple 'shells' ;)
>
> 2015-12-11 1:11 GMT+02:00 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com>:
> > Amichai,
> >
> > Actually, I have no idea why you were disgusted. The Ofek website usually
> > supports Linux with Chrome or Firefox rather well (though not always).
> > 4  years ago, we only had a problem with about 5% of the content, and
> this
> > year I do not recall a single issue.
> >
> > Orna
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> My kids got an offer to participate in the Code Monkey competition. I
> was
> >> directed to enter the Matach Web site to start training the monkey
> (sounds
> >> soooo bad!)
> >>
> >> I was disgusted by the landing page - you take a look and guess why:
> >>
> >> http://ebag.cet.ac.il/
> >>
> >> My question is: Why does the official Education in Israel promote a
> >> private company with obvious interest in making money, and so strongly
> >> objects FLOSS solutions?!
> >>
> >> As far as I know, it is common practice in Europe and the United
> States...
> >>
> >> How can we change this?
> >>
> >> How can I check if there's even one line of free software code behind
> the
> >> Code Monkey business?!
> >>
> >> I'll appreciate any information / opinion on FLOSS solutions in the
> >> official Israeli edukation... (typo deliberate).
> >>
> >> Amichai Rotman
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
> > http://ladypine.org
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Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
http://ladypine.org
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