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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..'
Fag.
how was that flamebait?
I can confirm what the parent said.
Still not fixed, at least its not fixed as of IE version 6.0.2800.1106
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
how was that flamebait?
Honestly, I think that slashdot has really gone to the dogs and this thread really proves that. My original post was first modded up to interesting, then down to troll and overrated and now its up to interesting again. 3 years ago a post like that would have been modded up to +5 Interesting and there would have been many supporting comments. But you take a look at all the reply comments people made now about it not being IE's fault and that its Visual Basic and you wonder, what are these people thinking? When did slashdot take on so many people that don't see the obviousness of this problem. When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.
Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
mods lost their sense of humour and smoking crack again i see.
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