On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:17:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > 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. I got an answer... > From techsupport@farnellinone.com Mon Sep 08 13:01:51 2003 > > Sorry, our CD catalogue is only designed to function on Windows based > systems. We are unable to disclose the data format. I don't really think I can take it forward from there unless I can find out what the format is, so I can make constructive suggestions as to an open-source format that they could use that it would be simple for them to convert to. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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