On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 13:54 -0500, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
According to John Lange:
For those of you not also subscribed to the PLUG mailing list, Syd Weidman points out that the census web site is now open to Linux:
The advisory is rather brief, and doesn't explain things all that clearly. It's not obvious, for example, whether they've simply made an exception to allow the Linux OS specifically, or whether they've stopped checking for particular OS'es altogether. If it's not the latter, then they've missed the point, IMHO.
It is far from clear but the wording seems to hint that the reason they restricted the site to specific OSes was because of a lack of tech support people familiar with anything but Windows.
This shouldn't be about recognizing Linux as another alternative OS, but rather about supporting open standards.
I completely agree.
It shouldn't matter at all what OS is being used, as long as the browser itself is W3C compliant, has sufficient encryption technology in it, and has a supported JVM.
Interesting you should mention the JVM. The "Linux Users" were satisfied with the change, the "Free Software" advocates are still complaining because you are required to use a proprietary JVM.