Re: OT: Mozilla/Firefox (was:Re: Windoze ends year with a major cert ...)

In article <1rudnU3IpaBD7CrenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bill Todd <billtodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> johnhreinhardt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>>you can complain to has no control over it. That's reality. The choice
>>>of IE support to the detriment of all other browsers is as much industry
>>>standard as the x86 architecture, that's reality. Squeek all you want,
>>>this is yert another place where MS has won and all the squeeking in the
>>>world won't change it until MS is supplanted as the industry standard.
>>
>>
>> But Bill, how can MS be supplanted if nobody squeeks?
>
> Not a problem: people are squeaking enough already - over 10% Firefox
> penetration in just a couple of years, and most Web sites started
> attempting to avoid losing such a non-trivial percentage of their
> clientele quite a while ago (especially since it's arguably a
> disproportionally important 10+%). It is *very* rarely that I notice
> any difficulty using Firefox on any site these days (except, of course,
> Microsoft's Update site which relies heavily upon ActiveX - though most
> other Microsoft sites work well enough).
>
> Bill can choose to be a part of that, or not, without making a whit of
> difference.

Don't get me wrong. I think BG has ethics lower than the average lawyer.
I think MS should have been fined out of existence more than a decade ago.
But, I am also not Don Quioxte. I stopped tilting at windmills a long,
long time ago.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can, and the
wisdom to know the difference. " - Reinhold Niebuhr

bill

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