RevCan and Linux/FireFox

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Jan 11 00:09:28 UTC 2009


Scott Sullivan wrote:
> Jon Thiele wrote:
>> At one point, I thought that you tell FireFox to report false
>> information to
>> websites like "NT 5.0, IE6.0" etc., but I can't find how to do this
>> in the
>> latest version.
> There are plugins for switching the reported information, but this
> shouldn't be your first course of action.
> This is actually an example of a government organization
> discriminating against a visible minority. This happened once before
> with the last Canadian Census for it's online version. Our goverment
> should not be telling us which OS and which Broswer we need to use to
> access their services, they need to make sure we all have equal
> access. So before any one starts claiming their running an OS their
> not, and in doing so giving them false data to say we're not a
> significant percentage of the population, we should contact Revenue
> Canada in regards to our rights.
>
And perhaps point out that requiring someone to use Microsoft software
is to require them to support a convicted monopolist.


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