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Re: [LUG] Black List

 

Viv and Philip wrote:
> For those interested, I will be sending a similar mail to all my banks
> tomorrow, and possibly some of the big ones that I don't currently bank
> with as well :
>
>   
Could be better phrased.  Send the fifth draft.


> "I want to know if you are ever intending in the future to fully support
> Linux and Mac users. 
No, you want to urge them to do it.  Even if not immediately.

> I can use your main internet banking service. But,
> I would like to use your Money Manager service as well and cannot
> because I use Linux. 
It does not support Linux... the lack is there... thre are positive
reasons to use Linux... they overlap with desires a bank should (and
will) have...

> I would have thought that the big banks would
> encourage use of operating systems that pose much less of a security
> risk to their customers financial data (rather than discourage by their
> lack of support) ? It's not just Egg - most of the other banks offer
> "Microsoft Only" services as well. However, I would like to know who
> will be first to rectify the situation as I will be signing up with
> them, as soon as their Linux compatible services become available."
>
>   
Preference rather than decision, not least because if there is one thing
businesses tend not to do it is to do things that people who are no
longer customers would have liked.

> This one has already gone off to Egg. If anyone would be interested in
> seeing the responses (if I get any) , let me know ?
>   


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