[wilhelmtux-discussion] [CH-FSFE] SECCO support for Microsoft-Propaganda

Claude Almansi claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
Fri Oct 5 23:54:00 CEST 2007


Hi Theo and All

Thanks for the info, Theo: it might also be worth taking a look at
another partner of the ITfitness: educationpool - according to their
http://www2.educationpool.ch/ site, they are spreading the thing to
Germany too.

Best

Claude

On 10/5/07, Theo Schmidt <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch> wrote:
> Today many media brought a story about Steve Ballmer and a cooperation
> of our Minister Doris Leuthard and SECCO with
>
> http://www.it-fitness.ch/
>
> which is heavily slanted toward Windows and MS-Office and doesn't even
> show up in the Konqueror browser. I did the test and only got 32 out of
> 42 questions right, because most ask about specific details (icons,
> menu-items) of mainly MS-Office.
>
> In
>
> http://punkt.ch/hauptnavigation/home/artikel-detailseite.html?newsid=3640
>
> there is an interview with Leuthard, where she says it would be wrong to
> have the test mainly on one vendor's products (although it does), and
> then goes on to say that the test should be about popular SW only.
>
> Georg Schulthess has already sent a strongly worded protest mail. The
> question is whether several of us should do the same, or if we should
> all sign a more carefully worded letter.
>
> Theo Schmidt
>
>
> Of course, compared to tommorrow's "Battle of Bern" this is all rather
> tame...
>



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