on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) wrote:
> > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD.
> > > This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze
> > > package in order to read the catalogue.
> >
> > Ask Farnell what they've used.
> >
> > And why they're restricting themselves to proprietary formats.
>
> I've pointed out that they're cutting themselves off from the
> increasing number of people who don't use Windows, and asked them what
> format it's in... anyone care to run the book on whether I get a
> useful answer? :-)
Cool.
I'd recommend you run a short for NewsForge or LWN on the outcome of
this. Post the interchange on your website (or if you don't have one:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/ would be more than happy to provide space and
bandwidth) and link it with a brief one paragraph writeup.
Peace.
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