Now FEMA Is Insisting On Windows

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Well, when you live in an "ownership society" you can be sure that 
somebody owns the government.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:51:40AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Not that this is by any means the most serious problem over at the
> Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but it's bad enough:
> 
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/fema_to_mac_linux_us.html
> 
> As someone there points out, this requirement for MS IE 6 is very likely
> also a violation of Federal law--the Sec. 508 requirements of PL
> 105-220:
> 
> http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508law.html
> 
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