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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
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There has been going on for several days now a discussion about the Windows-only web services offered by Finnair, the Finnish air carrier. A representative from Finnair wrote in the biggest newspaper in Finland that Windows is "the standard", and that only about three percent use other operating systems. Thus Finnair would be allowed to charge extra for thouse who use other systems. Several pointed comments have been published in response, including one from the Finnish consumer protection agency. Thus we have a dilemma in Finland. While Finnair discriminates against other systems than Windows on the web, the Finnish Millenium award was given to the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee. Here is an quote from the press release: "The Web has significantly enhanced many people's ability to obtain information central to their lives." But perhaps all those people are meant to use Windows. And to conclude this story, Tim Berners-Lee is a Mac user, at least according to the pictures published in the press.
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