On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:38:34 EST, James Matthews said: > >> Why doesn't microsoft throw some of it's weight behind Mozilla and ditch IE >> forever. It doesn't suit their image. > > Unfortunately, the PR doesn't work that way. Do you really want to be buying > an entire operating system from somebody who just admitted they can't even > produce a workable browser with all their resources? > > (Note this works differently in the Linux world, where the kernel crew doesn't > even pretend to write browsers, and the Firefox crew *just* does browsers, and > somebody else *just* does OpenOffice, and distros (for the most part) just > worry > about integration issues, and everybody only claims to do their little part > well)
Seriously. I mean, just look at Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice. Pristine code, not a single security vulnerability between them :) _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
