Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 16 Feb: > See also http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/02/14/index.dml > > Apparently, this is a protest against Microsoft's insistance on creating > software that makes it easy to create broken unstandard pages that will > only work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and with making their own > pages deliberately send broken pages to users of specific browsers.
risky busines, they could get suid, you know? :) > So maybe in order to stop their browser monopoly our (free software people) > goal should be to push a free server (including all the ASP,VB, and other > crap that MS developers love to use) to replace Microsoft's? Chillisoft attempted that (non-free), but the real answer comes from the industry itself, statistics shown by the Zend guy at the IBM conference (Doron whats-his-last-name) are that LAMP is much more popular on the web than IIS, and their business is doing great as well. the reason Israelis don't see that is that since linux is not giving an answer for the desktop, M$ took over colleges and universities, nobody is really pushing an alternatice so IT and programmers and therefore the money people know only of MS solutions, and the magic circle continues. the fact Yeda does the worst job in the world marketing Macs (let's face it, they are downright HOSTILE to anyone wanting to buy a mac in Israel), there is very little competition or demand for support for alternate client side. no client demand, programmers aren't aware, and so all the sites end up being a product of DevStudio's wizards instead of the work of programmers who know what they are doing, hence they are sluggish and not standard compliant. and yet, the enemy is not M$, it's people's lack of care and awareness. I hope Hamakor's resources can help change that. -- Man of the house Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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