Sam, I've just re-found your email. Another very positive thing that Linux users can do is to visit as many government websites as possible and shoot them off an email if they experience problems. I was given some figures by the Dept of Workplace Relations & Small Business on hits to the ABR site (http://www.abr.business.gov.au/(ohvqti55efjlsyuiaog4zbal)/WebProcessEngine. aspx) in Jan 2002. Based on 315,000 visits these were the operating systems of the visitors: Win98 41% Win NT 17% Win 2000 17% Win95 13% Win ME 6% Win XP 3% Macintosh 3% Other 0.23%
Obviously this website is very "businessy" and this survey may not be a fair measure of the use of Linux, but it still makes it hard for a government IT person to put together a business case to make their sites Linux friendly. We Linux users need to visit as many mainstream sites as possible to make our presence known. Regards David Perry > From: Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:20:48 +1100 > Subject: e-tax > > As you are aware, e-tax was introduced as a mainstream option last year. > The lack of software for any other platform other than Windows has led > me to write to you. > > I have begun some correspondence with the tax office in an effort to > try and create a groundswell of opinion that would lead to rectifying > this situation. One can but try. > > The efforts I have made are at http://www.gnubies.com/tax/index.html > > I would be grateful if you could post news of this to your mailing > list(s). > > Those who wish to, could write to the tax commissioner - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - expressing their sentiments. > > Thank you, > > Sam > -- > Sam Varghese > http://www.gnubies.com > Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the > improvement of community > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
