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Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)Posted Sep 11, 2005 23:50 UTC (Sun) by hozelda (guest, #19341)Parent article: Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)
Supporting only IE wouldn't be so bad if ...
-- IE was not proprietary (ie, not open source in usual definition) and
It would still suck for other cases but that would be life. Probably then we could vote with our dollars and complaints.
Come to think of it, I should complain AND I'd like to withhold my tax dollars. Pinch me when they put on the handcuffs.
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Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer) Posted Sep 17, 2005 23:03 UTC (Sat) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link] Well, surely the most ridiculous thing about IE-only is that it restricts the entire platform, not just the browser. Even if they "only allowed Firefox", I'd tell them they are wrong, but at least they wouldn't be shutting out the entire legions of non-Windoze users. Sometimes it seems like we're frighteningly close to losing control of the free and open web. Roll on, freedom and standards....
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