Calling on everyone to join the "Open Letter to China Merchants Bank" campaign!

All along, users could only use Microsoft's proprietary IE browser to normally use the online banking services of the Merchants Bank. This means that the Merchants Bank has restricted users to the proprietary, expensive, and flawed software Windows, which is currently being ravaged by the "Panda Burning Incense" virus, causing untold suffering for countless Microsoft Windows users; this means that the Merchants Bank has significantly increased the cost for users to access online banking services because you have to spend over a thousand RMB on Microsoft's Windows operating system just to use the Merchants Bank's online banking... Now, as a user of the Merchants Bank and free software, I request that the Merchants Bank immediately abandon Microsoft's proprietary ActiveX software technology and instead adopt open, free Internet standards that comply with W3C, RFC, etc., to develop online banking services."

Bill Xu is calling on China's free software users through his open letter to the Merchants Bank to jointly urge the bank to adopt open standards for its online banking services that can support normal access via free software. Several domestic banks, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Merchants Bank, have been using ActiveX technology for security verification in their online banking services, directly excluding users of non-IE browsers. The main victims are undoubtedly the users of free software. The significance of this campaign goes beyond merely complaining about online banking services; it is also one of the loudest calls from the free software community regarding the overall software environment in China.