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Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age
Gilad Ben-Yossef (gilad@benyossef.com) wrote:
>Today, in "Yediot Ahronot" Dudy Goldman (as much as this poor "reporter"
>can be trusted to convey the truth) has posted an article claiming that
>M$ and the Israeli government has signed an agreement by which the
>"Memshal Zamin" (available government?) project will be based on it's
>entirely on M$ products (Explorer, Outlook etc.) and using M$
>proprietary protocols (e.g. It's "logical" hebrew).
I also saw this in Ha'aretz, IIRC.
>This basically means that if you are not buying M$ products (read:
>OS/browser/email client), or stealing them, as most do you will be
>unable to use the services the Israeli government will offer it's
>citizens on the Internet, and the "Memshal Zamin" project aims to offer
>quite a lot.
MS have another program, for students, who do a Bagrut in IT or something
like that, and learn how to use many advanced Intranet and Internet
technologies, while working for Israeli companies. (Do they get paid? I
doubt it.) What advanced technologies? ASPs, and IE, and IIS. All
provided by Microsoft. Those guys up at Redmond are sooo generous.
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