Hi, Happy to see that tone of this mailing list is becoming pleasant again. Its just that emotions flare up whenever topics about proprietary s/w are discussed on a free s/w mailing list. What we needed was a 'gentle' intervention from the moderators.
On Jun 23, 6:54 pm, Anoop Jacob Thomas <anoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > The $10000 thing is some kind of information we can use how a giant > proprietary firm is trying to bash a very popular Free Software. And Firefox > users may use IE to take that 10000 and they will do all other browsing by > Firefox. ;) Coz they know how insecure IE is when it comes to online > transactions and all. :D. I wouldn't bet on the security aspect yet. Firefox has far more documented security vulnerabilities than any other web browser out there- and by a large margin. I have seen many reports, for example, this one form December 2008 by Secunia: http://secunia.com/gfx/Secunia2008Report.pdf . There are a few other reports too, but I am too lazy to dig them up. The only argument against this may be that firefox reports risks far more transparently and patches them far more quickly. So this may not represent the complete truth. Actually IE8 is quite decent in performance compared to its predecessors. The only reason why I hate it a lot is because they intentionally corrupt the HTML standards so that M$ can keep the entire web manageably incompetent. But tell that to normal users - who wouldn't care about alternate browsers, much less about W3C standards. Security situation is the same. Crackers tend to target IE more (with its poor vulnerability reporting and late patches), but who cares? Ask me how many of my friends learned about the dreaded Conficker worm - after they got infected with it! Just don't expect users' diligence to come to Firefox's rescue. M$'s dirty tactics will work just as they expect. Users will fall head over heals for the money. The only way out may be to somehow label this as an anti-competitive behaviour. Regards, Gokul Das Disclaimer: Any similarity between an FSUG member and a 'normal' user is purely coincidental and unintended. No disputes over this will be entertained! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
