Copyright Office: Everyone Uses MSIE, Right?

richardtallent writes "Tim Bray caught that the United States Copyright Office's upcoming copyright pre-registration web application apparently only works with Internet Explorer, and they are seeking written comments from anyone who might have a problem being forced to use IE. Slashdotters, start your snail-mail."

Comments

The address (RTFM iz hard)

[Safety Cap]

for mail:

Copyright GC/ I&R
P.O. Box 70400
Southwest Station
Washington, DC 20024-0400

Re:At least they're asking!

[badfish99]

No, no, the reason they want you to make 5 copies of the letter is because they want to distribute it to 5 different people and they don't want to get caught copying it themselves in case you have copyrighted it.

rtfa?

[mullein]

From the federal register link in the /. article:

"Support for Netscape 7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of these browsers may experience problems when filing claims."

It doesn't seem that they plan on restricting usage to IE users only, and in fact sounds more like they have the position, "it might work on firefox, but we haven't tested it."

Re:Be Respectful!

[toddbu]

Do you have to say that you're using Linux? Just say something like "I use the Firefox web browser which currently holds 10% of the browser market. I feel that it's important the U.S. government support at least the top two web browsers on its web sites as this will promote free market competition in this area."