[Am-info] The Register: Opera makes hay with MS Mac Arabic/Hebrew snub

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.06.20 10:30 PM, Mark Hinds typed: ============

>Without meaning to start a GPL sucks/doesn't suck argument, this higlights
>one of the values of cumpulsory source availability. These guys are actually
>willing to do the work themselves and give it to MS so there wil be a Mac 
>Hebrew
>version, but MS won't even allow that. As I understand it this is exactly the
>kind of thing that prompted Stallamn in the first place. How else can such
>behavior be prevented?
>
> >This apparently has prompted an anti-trust complaint in Israeli following a
> >further refusal by Microsoft to accept a programming team to implement 
>Hebrew
> >character support in Office for them!

   There was a similar issue with Ms Money for some country... Some place 
like Iceland where the language is strange and the market isn't large 
enough to justify rewriting the program in a different language. The 
government offered to pay Microsoft to make the program and it refused.

Give me a minute to get in my archives and I'll give the full story.


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