Comment Re:Israel is just the start (Score 4, Insightful) 464
If M$ losses the Israeli government as a client, the problem to them will not be that other big clients will immidiately follow, since at first those clients will have no incentive to follow suite.
The problem will be that, once it chooses OSS, the Israeli government will then give a large push to the translation effort of OSS to Hebrew and to the support of bidi writing. _This_ will enable other Israeli clients to finally move to OSS and will cost M$ a lot in Israel...
The problem will be that, once it chooses OSS, the Israeli government will then give a large push to the translation effort of OSS to Hebrew and to the support of bidi writing. _This_ will enable other Israeli clients to finally move to OSS and will cost M$ a lot in Israel...
