Re: FOSS vs Proprietary - FF vs IE, Is it worse than we think?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rubin Bennett wrote: | here is that they're following the patch of least resistance, which is a I think it's Windows *sysadmins* who follow the patch of least resistance, not the programmers... ;-) - -sth sam hooker|[EMAIL

Re: FOSS vs Proprietary - FF vs IE, Is it worse than we think?

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:44 -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rubin Bennett wrote: | here is that they're following the patch of least resistance, which is a I think it's Windows *sysadmins* who follow the patch of least resistance, not the

Re: FOSS vs Proprietary - FF vs IE, Is it worse than we think?

Dear Rubin, Your point about the Miracle of application development is not lost on me. What I find amusing is that a unibrowser (e.g. IE only) based HR application has an interesting indirect effect on your hiring hiring policy... So it goes. Regards, Flint

Re: FOSS vs Proprietary - FF vs IE, Is it worse than we think?

I'm going to play devil's advocate here just a bit... I don't think that it's *quite* fair to call developers who make IE only webapps idiots or lazy... the thing is that for lots of folks just getting an app to work at all is somewhat of a miracle, because they aren't developers at all - they're