Re: OT: Mozilla/Firefox (was:Re: Windoze ends year with a major cert ...)
- From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:05:35 -0600
BRAD wrote:
>
> Rich Jordan wrote:
> > Happiness is...
> > three different coworkers coming to my little cube and asking me
> > nicely if they might use my Alphastation to do some browsing; due to
> > the research going on they have to visit some oddball sites and just
> > didn't feel comfortable doing it on their fancy peecees just now...
> > (and no its not porn, but some searches lead to eastern European and
> > Asian sites).
> >
> > Now at least two of them want to try Firefox after exposure to
> > Mozilla ;) They know its not a security cure-all but the tabs sure are
> > nice...
>
> It continues to amaze me that so many people have not heard of (or do
> not use) Mozilla/Firefox - people who consider themselves
> "internet-savvy". It sure makes surfing easier and safer. I guess too
> many folks are used to beating themselves over the head with Internet
> Exploder, and have gotten used to the dull ache of Windows.
>
> Too bad OpenVMS has abandoned the desktop (eh, David?)
If you're evoking me, yeah ... it is. Considering that scaling from
desktop to datacenter was once a VMS marketing thing, it is rather a
shame to see what has become if it.
If the denizens of this forum were as staunch about VMS as they are
about other issues, we'd all be laying seige to HP's stronghold, torches
and pitchforks in hand.
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