Comments on: Microsoft is Using the Excuse of ‘Security’ Against Support of Web Standards http://techrights.org/2011/06/17/trick-to-daemonise-webgl/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/06/17/trick-to-daemonise-webgl/comment-page-1/#comment-120538 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:20:00 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49898#comment-120538 Security is like children — we exploit both to make a point with a sense of urgency.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2011/06/17/trick-to-daemonise-webgl/comment-page-1/#comment-120536 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:48:04 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=49898#comment-120536 One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company” from Comes v Microsoft, Plaintiff’s Exhibit 2991.

The “security” excuse has long been used to eliminate standards. It’s sad that people roll over for it. I’ve seen it used to search and destroy on IMAPS clients and other things that M$ can’t do. Obviously M$ is not using the same meaning of security as the rest of the world. Microserf is a language all to itself.

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