Comments on: Microsoft Crowd Incites People Against Rival Web Browsers http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/ 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: NotZed http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-72650 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:40:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=17088#comment-72650 “And many developers don’t want to bother making their products conform to IE6. Mark Trammell of the Digg content rating site, blogged, “Here at Digg, like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of time making sure the site works in IE6, an 8-year-old browser superseded by two full releases.” ”

Well why don’t they save their effort, hair colour and follicles and stop? Breaking their own backs for windoze users is stupidity.

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By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-72649 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:17:25 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=17088#comment-72649

As well as the profanity sprinkled throughout. I’ll spare conjecture and let others think what they will, but I will say that I’ve noticed (IMO) personal attacks (rather than attacks on the argument/logic itself) as well as profanity appears to be common in debates with those that have ties to MS payola.

Remember Synder?

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By: Will http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-72648 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:14:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=17088#comment-72648 Maybe that was another program that got cut? ;)

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By: Will http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-72647 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:11:18 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=17088#comment-72647 “Any company that uses lawyers rather than technical excellence to make a dollar deserves to die.”

Really? He seems eager to apply that to Mozilla without even considering how much it applies to Microsoft. What he said is true, though. SCO is a perfect example of that. Sadly, SCO also shows that the company’s death, no matter how inexorable, might still proceed at a glacial pace.

Note also the personal attack in the article:
“I’m calling you out, Baker. You are a pathetic excuse for a human being, working for a pathetic excuse of an organisation. ”

As well as the profanity sprinkled throughout. I’ll spare conjecture and let others think what they will, but I will say that I’ve noticed (IMO) personal attacks (rather than attacks on the argument/logic itself) as well as profanity appears to be common in debates with those that have ties to MS payola. Perhaps not everyone, but MS would certainly do well to provide training in civility to some of their perception management helpers. They weaken their own (or MS’s own) arguments with their conduct.

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By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/08/23/microsoft-crowd-vs-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-72645 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:25:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=17088#comment-72645 MS is supporting XP with security updates until 2014, and supporting IE6 is part of that. They too have realised they’ve stuck tehmselves with a nightmare. Withdrawing security support for IE6 wouldn’t slow its use any.

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