Code Monkey by Matach - Outrageous!

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

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.
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