[OT] Politics and Programming

[Richmond Mathewson]

It doesn't; but not all of us live in a world that revolves around the USA.

Judy Perry wrote:
> And this relates to US politics how exactly?
>
> Judy
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>
>> Just had a painful conversation with a Bank of Scotland
>> representative to set up online banking; the fact that
>> the service representative, every time I said I work
>> with Mac and Linux told me "never mind, just use
>> Internet Explorer" cost me an extra 15 minutes of
>> international rates. Those 'silly' people have just lost
>> another customer who will be transferring his (very
>> small) savings to HSBC, who are 'cool' with all platforms,
>> including RISC OS 5.
>>
>> 3-4 years ago I produced a modest program for pre-High School
>> kids to bone up on their Bulgarian literature (this is what is
>> called 'a niche market'). Discs that contained standalones for
>> Debian-derivatives as well as Windows ones were returned
>> with complaints (the feeling was that because they had
>> Linux standalones on them, as well as Windows one this,
>> somehow meant they wouldn't work on Windows).
>>
>> Both of the above are things that happened as a result of
>> software decisions; one by the HBOS and one by myself.
>>
>> Now these may not be 'Political' in the sense of politics,
>> but they are political insofar as they affect other people,
>> marketing and so on.
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