On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:41:00AM -0800, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > > I'll walk right in to my bosses-bosses office, and let him know that he made a > bad choice and that he should be fired. >
We're here for you afterward ... > I was about to write something here that would explain how the purchase was > made > by an entity that we do not control, then expanded to include groups within > our > control, because of the economic and process advantages to using the same > interface and database for the related projects, often worked by the same > people. > > But... I'll just make it short and say, Not every decision on software is > purely > technical. Maybe the fact that it doesn't work with other browsers WAS taken > in > to consideration and other factors outweighed it ! > Like the stupid myopia of the purchaser? That is so *sad*! And so *true*! > We can't all be perfect either. > _I'm_ certainly not perfect. Here's one of my imperfections: whenever I run across a browser lock-out in IE's favor I get so f***in' pissed I start TO SHOUT and then pretty soon my wife is pulling me back by the collar of my jacket, and people are edging toward the door and fingering 911 on their cell phones and ... <pant pant> Excuse me ... gotta back off. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
