Discrimination based on OS?

[Christopher Chan]

Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Does your army field telephone conform to the standards forced on AT&T and
>> adopted by the rest of the telecommunications industry?  Being Army,
>> probably not, but it's a good example because you do have a legal right to
>> demand that your local Telco permit the connection of your standards-
>> compliant telephone, and this has definitely not caused the cost of
>> telephone service to EXPLODE
>>     
>
> But my point is that the IT dept. has a standard they're applying, and
> that standard is windows or mac.  Now if we can only get TCP/IP,
> 802.11 protocols and WEP/WPA/etc. regulated as a utility, we're in
> business!
>
>   
Sounds good. Where do we start? The UN?