Comments

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-12-02 13:18:07

  On Goblin: Miguel and the other in the mono guard always respond with personal attacks. It has been like that since the very first day they announced the project. It's like he's made it his life's work to copy M$ and to try to subvert any and all FOSS projects and his only trick is to attack anyone that says anything less than 'yay!'
  
  Miguel might be using a little special interpretation of the word developer. It looks like from the context he means *mono* developers and not real developers.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-12-02 13:31:11

  Some others took offence in his remarks because they -- including me -- are software developers who produce Free software.
  
  As for Miguel's "code", I refer you to:
  
  "Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat."

  --James Plamondon, Microsoft Technical Evangelist. From Exhibit 3096; Comes v. Microsoft litigation [PDF]

• your_friend

  2009-12-02 16:06:36

  Microsoft has lost the browser wars by not conforming to standards. Even when you look at the heavily skewed and unrepresentative US 63% number you get this:
  
  

  Microsoft's newest browser accounted for 22.1 percent of all browsers, a virtual dead heat with IE6 and several points above IE7's 16.9 percent.

  
  
  No version of IE has more than 20%. What this means for Microsoft is that non Microsoft browsers are now more valuable for vendors than any version of Internet Explorer. Firefox's share trumps any version of IE in all markets, so vendors are better off coding to standards than they are coding to Microsoft. Shame on any web people who are not putting Firefox and reasonable standards first, they ignore the largest segment of the market.
  
  This is what Microsoft deserves for using their browser as a weapon in platform wars. Each version of their browsers is crippled by attempts to promote their Microsoft garbage and harm other standards, java, css, png, ogg vorbis, ogg theora, etc. The result is that Microsoft Windows users depend on a free software browser to be able to browse the web properly and Microsoft periodically sabotages that. There are better reason to abandon Windows but this one is sufficient for most people. Microsoft's malice has left them with a fragmented platform that works for no one.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2009-12-02 17:12:26

  Microsoft is also busy poisoning rival browsers without permission.