Tax authorities in Israel
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu May 26 21:31:03 IDT 2011
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 19:14, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com> wrote:
> Why amazing? Israel is probably the most MS addicted country on the
> planet. Nowhere else do people look at you as at a lunatic when they
> learn that you are using something "exotic" (OS/2 or Linux). Once, years
> ago, I was told in a Bezeq business office that I was speaking out of
> ignorance, because _every_ computer has Windows. In contrast, last month
> in Kiev, the driver who brought me into town from the airport glanced at
> the screen of my laptop (which does not say "Linux"), and said to me,
> "Oh, you're using Linux".
>
> There has already been a lot of talk here about efforts to get
> governmental agencies and quasi-governmental ones to loosen up and stop
> acting as though they are a subsideary of Microsoft.
>
> I've said before that the right address for improving this state of
> afairs is the State Comptroller. That is still true.
>
However, his own site does not support Firefox very well:
http://www.mevaker.gov.il/serve/default.asp
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