[SLL] Arrgh, Lake Washington School District requires IE to access web site...

[Chuck Wolber]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, wha wrote:

> Why not use the "system" (government) against itself.  Try and access 
> the site via lynx or w3m.  That'll probably show that they are NOT ADA 
> Handicap Compliant (or some similar phrase).

A similar approach was used to get open source software into Boeing. There 
was a *HUGE* amount of resistance to it and management wasn't budging. It 
was either Microsoft or proprietary Unix, or the highway. Finally a guy 
named Harry George got the brilliant idea to file an ethics complaint with 
the company's ethics department. The complaint essentially claimed that 
the company was discriminating against a supplier (OSS developers). Next 
thing you know, the floodgates opened and OSS is now (almost) a mainstream 
tool at The Boeing Company.

I think part of the reason this worked so well was because this was during 
the time The Boeing Company was being beaten up over the 767 tanker 
debacle. They were trying to show they had fixed their ways by installing 
an ethics department and forcing everyone to go through ethics training 
(kind of ironic considering that the line employees had nothing to do with 
the debacle and yet they paid the biggest price).

..Chuck..


-- 
http://www.quantumlinux.com
 Quantum Linux Laboratories, LLC.
 ACCELERATING Business with Open Technology

"And remember, no one has proved that our intelligence is a successful
 adaptation, over the long term. It remains to be seen if the human brain
 is powerful enough to solve the problems it has created."
		--Richard Wallace

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0