Notice that section titled "Graphics"? Read the second guideline in that section: "Avoid Using Graphics As Links". Notice that *every* important link (ie section headers) on the page is a GIF image. The mitigating factor is that they have ALT tags, so they are usable by (eg) screen reader programs. Still, makes you wonder why they would break one of their own rules/guidelines so blatantly on the same page. Is it so difficult to use a different font size or emphasis instead of a GIF image?
I agree. Fortune and Forbes are in general to be distrusted when it comes to reporting on technical companies. Having the best interests of big business at heart is bound to conflict eventually with developing better technology. Not to mention flamebait (search the webpage for "basements").
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Notice that section titled "Graphics"? Read the second guideline in that section: "Avoid Using Graphics As Links". Notice that *every* important link (ie section headers) on the page is a GIF image. The mitigating factor is that they have ALT tags, so they are usable by (eg) screen reader programs. Still, makes you wonder why they would break one of their own rules/guidelines so blatantly on the same page. Is it so difficult to use a different font size or emphasis instead of a GIF image?
I agree. Fortune and Forbes are in general to be distrusted when it comes to reporting on technical companies. Having the best interests of big business at heart is bound to conflict eventually with developing better technology. Not to mention flamebait (search the webpage for "basements").
True. Speaking for myself, RMS defending the GPL in court would probably be like the last scene in The Fountainhead (Roark's court monologue).