FCC Bars LINUX from Universal Licensing System

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It will change real soon - that page hoses my wife's XP box.  What
we have here is a classic case of not conforming to the W3C standards,
which makes the page inaccessible to several million users.  Silly.

George



Quoting Eric <swive@getnet.com>:

> http://cryptome.org/fcc-x-linux.htm
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> 29 December 2001. Thanks to JC/CP.
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> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:50:52 -0600
> From: Donn aka N5XWB <dwash@hal-pc.org>
> To: [List removed]
> Subject: http://www.fcc.gov and LINUX exclusion
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> Hello Group;
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> I would like to request you to contact your State Representative,
> Senators
> and the Federal Communication Commission Officers about a issue that
> is
> causing ALL UNIX/Linux and Apple users a problem.  It seems that the FCC
> has
> chosen to exclude all NON Microshaft NT/95 users from being able to
> use
> their Internet Universal Licensing System which they have requested
> FCC
> Licenses holder to use for license renewals.
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> The problem is that it requires a JavaScript Plug-in that is a
> Microsoft
> product only.
> 
> Simply go to "http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls" and then select "ONLINE
> FILING".
> I believe this to be the complete path to the failure.  Which is "This
> plug-in only runs on Windows NT/95".
> 
> We need to protect the finest operating system from being excluded from
> the
> United States by our Government Officials.
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