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IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations
sriram_2001 writes "Dave Massy, a Microsoft employee who works on the Internet Explorer team has a response to the Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker's comments. Specifically, he responds to the claim that IE is a part of the operating system. 'IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..'
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Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
Then perhaps you should stop posting FUD or just plain misinformation. Your post should have stayed modded down. It's irrelevant and trollish.
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IE has developers? What a bunch of lazy bitches. Where is tabbed browsing, popup blocker, css2, a javascript console, extentions ala Firefox? Seems like they haven't been developing crap for the last 4 years.
WindowsXP is based on NT, which was developed by guys they got from DEC, who had developed VAX operating systems. Windows "started over" long before Apple. Apple probably learned it from them.
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try to understand this. i was not attempting to compare YOUR apple to a dell. i simply picked a random apple laptop, found a comparable dell laptop, and quoted the price. i don't know you, nor do i know the specs of your laptop so i had hoped that would be obvious to you. i guess not. you said:
This is about what I'd expect to pay for a nice Intel laptop with similar specs
in general, that is not true. you can think what you want, but don't deceive people by making the statement that you exect to pay the same amount for a comparable intel-based laptop. if you really believe this, go do some homework. it took me about 3 minutes.
Furthermore, Dell's Inspiron line is comparable to the iBook
you want to talk ibooks huh? the closest ibook that is comparable to the dell i quoted is $1499. that's still $400 more, and it has a smaller screen, slower processor, less memory, and a smaller drive. can you please explain how comparing the ibook makes your point? or better yet, can you please just do some homework?
my post was certainly based on more factual information that yours since i actually quoted the specs of the two systems, and they are both currently shipping off the shelf with no aftermarket mods.
on top of this, you can get less expensive than dell. that even magnifies the price difference more. also, when you buy non-apple you don't get raped for peripherals / add-ons.
The statement would stand if Linux did not take a 'secure by default' perspective to installs. And some of this is end user's faut yet again because default installs of distros often need several packages updated. You do not blame the distro or the underlying OS because the user failed to update those apps.
In comparison, one can say the same thing about Microsoft's product but because they do not have a 'secure by default' mentallity (until ever so recently) and still have bad practices like applications running as root and the browser render engine being integrated into the OS which they refuse to correct, the fault again lies with them.
In the Open Source arena, security comes first. You cannot say this about Microsoft.
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