"You're the one getting angry and name-calling about some true statements I made about an Office suite. "
Why do you think I am angy? I am simply pointing out your lies. Why would I get angry about that?
"If you get angry when someone speaks ill of a piece of software which isn't your own, you're a fanboy idiot. "Nooo, OpenOffice is holy! You lie, you lie! It's not true!! *sniff*""
Since I destroyed your straw man I guess this sentence is moot.
Keep shilling though, god knows MS needs help from the likes of you!.
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Companies have marketing departments and ad agencies to get the word out about their products. Open source software has you. Who else is supposed to do it?
"Gee, I don't know, maybe the fact that is a discussion on a vulnerability which was found in PowerPoint? That vulnerability didn't find itself."
Lying again I see. The vulnaribility was not found by MS doing an audit. Most windows and office vulnarilibilities are not found by MS doing an audit.
RE:ODF. You provide a press release by MS to prove that it will be read/write and will not be crippled?
"Even if OOo was as richly scriptable as Office (which it simply isn't), it's multiplatform and thus can't have the same integration with other parts of the OS."
Why not?
""Yes you are."? I hate replying to a post only to realise I'm responding to someone with a mental age of a schoolboy.."
YEs you are. I can tell because you lie so much. Lying is intervowen to the MS culture and the fanbois are no exception. Keep shilling though my boy. The world needs more MS shills that's for sure.
If you have enough RAM for access you have enough ram for office.
"you're not going to need support,"
If you need support you can buy it from Sun. You may have heard about Sun. I think they are a pretty large company.
"you're not going to need the pre-written macro code which is everywhere for Office,"
Office by default will not let you execute macros. Most organizations turn off the macro execution as a group policy in AD. Having said that if you have willingly chosen to open up your desktop to macro exploits and have willingly chosen to lock yourself to a vendor then you can't switch. Vendor lock sucks for an organization though. From now on you are no longer allowed to use any non MS office software ever. Good for them, sucks for you.
"you don't need the excellent VBA IDE,"
See above. You can script OO in python though, much better then VBA as far as I am concerned. There are several python IDEs around too last I checked.
"you don't need the excellent documentation,"
Wait let me check my office manual to see if it's better then the OO manual. Ooops looks like I didn't get an office manual. Seriously... There is excellent OO documentation. There are also several books which are cheaper then office.
"you're not going to use the entire systems implemented in Office (Excel and Access systems are commonplace where I work, they're commercial and not in-house software)"
If you are buying commercial apps they can (and should) use the office developer toolkit to deliver you a runtime. If they are forcing you to buy office just to run their apps then you are getting screwed. Also see the above remark about vendor lock.
"you don't mind not being able to properly use the documents everyone outside your organisation will be using, and the documents your employees will be bringing from home,"
Keep a copy of office around for those rare documents that don't translate properly. Tell your employees to use OO at home if they want to work from home. All companies have document standards.
"you don't mind the GUI not matching the rest of your system,"
When office 2007 comes out the GUI of OO will more closely match your XP box then office will.
"you don't mind using a piece of software which no-one will have audited,"
What makes you think office was audited? Who audited that commercial software package you got from that commercial vendor (you know the one that requires office to run). Who audited that messenger program half of your staff is using? I have news for you. 100% of the corporations in the world are running at least one piece of un-audited software.
"you can't wait for Office 2007 for ODF,"
The ODF support in 2007 will be read only. It will also be crippled from the looks of it.
"and you don't need a rich macro API."
You have no idea what you are talking about. None at all. Every part of OO is scriptable.
"Disclaimer: I'm not an MS fanboy, "
Yes you are. If you weren't you would not have lied so much.
The article specifially mentions ROR which is stupid because ROR is all about good coding practices and maintenance. When you create a controller or a model ROR automatically creates a test for you. The test is minimal to be sure but you no longer have the excuse and it's trivial to expand the case. ROR also encourages MVC and dozens of other patterns.
ROR is the wrong example in this case. The right example is ASP.NET which encourages sloppy practices like embedding SQL in code and Crystal reports which is well an abomination as far as I am concerned. Visual studio didn't even support unit testing till 2005 for gods sake and MS still discourages the use of object persistence layers.
"Why should Skype have patented this, and how does this negatively affect Skype?"
Skype didn't patent it because it would mean revealing the implementation and it would provide a point of attack to the phone companies.
Reverse engineering is legal in most of the world so there is nothing to protect them now. Of course they could get a patent now but somehow I don't think they will. Ebay isn't really a smart company and they bought skype on a whim, they never knew what to do with it anyway. I think they will just ignore this and up their marketing like all other US companies do.
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"Just the kind of "this is true because it supports my partisan opinions" rationale that made the forgeries so easy for Dan to believe despite the lack of substantiation and the problematic nature of what little"
It's a demonstrated fact that Bush went AWOL. Sorry but that's true.
I just got done reading an article where ROR was able to handle 1.1 million hits per day. So if you think your web site will need less then 1 million hits per day then the increased productivity of ROR is probably worth it.
If you think you will need more then 1.1 million hits per day then you are probably better off going to something else (for now anyway).
"But the modern approach is to define your data as classes and have schema generation (or something called 'meet in the middle', where schema and class definitions interact). Rails gets it the wrong way round - the relational database is a very poor place to define object models - this was a lesson learned decades ago (but apparently, not learned by Rails)."
Rails can do that. It's called migrations. You should look into it. They are really cool. Once again you need to learn about the thing your are pissing on because it makes you look stupid when you claim something that isn't true.
"Of course you can create mappings, but this does not help, for example, suppose someone creates additional fields - your mapped classes will pick those up automatically. Your code is still vunerable to schema changes in ways that more robust ORMs aren't. As shipped, and as intended to be used, Rails is fragile."
Again that's the whole point of rails. That's a feature not a bug. So you add five fields now what? Sure activerecord knows about them but since none of your other code is aware of them the fields are never called. No harm no foul.
"I have used it, and I have researched it in detail."
I don't believe you.
"I think you need to take a much deeper look at other technologies (especially modern JDO 2.0 implementations like Kodo, and associated tools) before posting again - you will find some awesome stuff - the ability to define queries in portable languages, and like really high performance transaction handling."
No thanks. I have given up Java for good. I am not going back ever. You can keep it. I refuse to code in it again either for pleasure or for a job. Lucky for me I don't have to.
"Sorry, but this is wildly out of date. J2EE can be just as DRY as rails. "
No it can't. As you said you need a mapper file to map your database to your objects.
"For example, with Hibernate and with other ORMs used with J2EE, you can generate you Java classes from a database schema (or part of that schema). However, unlike Rails, this is only done when you request it."
Once again that's precicely the point. Class generation has been around for decades now. Rails specifically didn't want to do that.
"This is not the case with Rails, as use of different databases may require different column name conventions and changes."
It's becoming obvious to me that you have never used rails or even ruby. In rails you can create all the mappings you want. You just do them in your class instead of an external file and you do them only if you want to rename a field. You can can even attach to different databases at runtime. For example if you have a activerecord defined as people but you have 50 databases (one for each client let's say) when you instanticate the people object you can attach to any database you want.
I think you really should use the framework before making remarks about it. It's clear that you are simply talking out of your butt.
No I don't think you did at all. Right there under the products is their product which is called xen enterprise. Here is the link. http://www.xensource.com/products/xen_enterprise/i ndex.html. Right there the third bullet point (right after support) is windows support.
"Sorry, to be a competitor to VMWare or VirtualPC it has to run a *lot* more operating systems than that. Hell, even FreeBSD would be a start. But as I said without Windows support it's in no way a competitor and never will be."
Now that we know that statement was based on ignorance will you admit that xen is a competitor to VMware?
"No one cares about Xen. Microsoft made a copy of VPC free to drum up business for a product they just bought. "
What a bunch of crock. MS bought a company that was selling a product and making money on it. Xen directly caused VMware to start giving away one of the products which in turn made it impossible for Ms to recover it's investment in the company they bought.
"You still need to have a valid licence to run Windows on it or VMWare. "
Except that they just announced that you don't need to for the first four VMs.
"Where are you going to get support for Xen from?"
If you are running a billion hits per day then ROR is probably not good enough for you. As you said even Java is barely good enough.
I do pity your staff if they are maintaining a web site like that in C++ though. I would hate to be them for sure.
Anyway it's good enough for most of us. The ROR guys readily admit that it's not suitable for everybody. I for one think that writing a web site from day one to handle a billion hits per day is premature optimization of the worst kind. When you think about it a billion hits a day would require all kinds of architecture decisions and virtually no syncronous processing at all. That's a very tall order indeed. You could (and should) spend the first six months to a year doing nothing but planning in order to build a site like that no matter what language or framework you chose.
ROR is for people who want to build web sites that can take a moderate to heavy load. If your site becomes so popular that it crushes ROR then you will have to migrate to something else. Hopefully by then you have lots of money to spend on help.
What a powerful demonstration of exatly how disruptive open source is. As soon as Xen started picking up some steam and press VMware made their server free and now MS not only makes their virtual PC free they also forgo profits on four copies of vista enterprise.
I can't seem to find how much Ms paid for connectix (anybody know?) but that's millions of dollars Ms spent that they will never make a penny on. Windows 2003 server enterprise cost anywhere from 2500 to 5000 depending on your volume and such, if vista costs about the same then they are also giving up 10 to 20 thousand dollars of profit for every install of virtualPC.
Well those types of frameworks already exist. J2EE immediately comes to mind as well as hibernate, ibatis etc. The rails people have produced an alternative to those types of frameworks because they didn't want to define something in two places (or three or four or five or sixteen). In other words it's not a bug, it's a feature.
If you don't like that feature of Rails then it's not for you but DRY is a major selling point of rails. It sounds like you would be more comfortable with J2EE.
"The thing is, it leads to fragile code. Changes in a schema lead automatically to changes in code, which are potentially hard to trace, as they happen only at run time."
I have never used any framework where changing the schema didn't lead to all kinds of problems. Rails is actually more resilient then most because objects automatically morph with the change and with frequent use of iterators it drastically reduces the amount of code that needs to be fiddled with.
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Django:
Overall very nice. No capistrano, no migrations, no built in support the unit testing like rails. Great admin interface, very fast.
Symfony:
Don't know, never used it, never will because it's PHP and I don't like PHP anymore.
Zope:
Aaah zope. So much innovation, so much potential, so much going for it but in the end so hard to learn and use. Very slow. documentation not all that great. TTW design is a HUGE drain on productivity. No support to deployments. You can keep your stinkin migrations because we have a object oriented database. Testing is a pain. I actually like aquisition. It's great the security is built in. There are too many half asses, half finished, half functional products which all have weird dependencies on other broken products. Where are the gems or CPAN?
I think zope is brilliant but I also think it's wasted potential. For some reason this great and innovative framework has not produced the likes of wordpress, sourceforge, a halfway decent bug tracking system, or anything else (except for plone of course). A good framework should produce great products and zope has failed in that.
Interesting observations. I have two questions though.
1) Are you advocating the use of object oriented databases or plain files instead of relational databases? 2) Since ruby on rails already powers sites that get thousands of hits per minute it seems to me that it would be perfomant enought for 99.9% of most web sites out there. Was there some specific web site you wanted to build?
"I do agree with his basic statement that "no matter what MS does, people will bash them for it"./. public typically paint off MS in black and Linux in white. "
OK. So what? Why is this so offensive to you? Linux is a community effort and it's normal for people to rally around their communities, whether it's yoru neighborhood, school, state, club or whatever. It's not normal to rally around a corporation. In fact I think it's kind of sick.
"One can idly stand by and wait for the whole world to believe half-truths and biased, unbased opinions or one can choose to react and try to give people a more balenced view of reality in hope of actually enabling them to make choices based on facts instead of mere FUD."
That's a fine statement to make in the abstract. When you make it in order to defend a corporation against it's customers it turns out to be creepy.
"I guess it's the eternal struggle against ignorance."
Only if you define ignorance as being "people who do not repeat our commercials word for word". Again quite creepy.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, indexing a drive. How cool. I wonder if anybody else has ever done that before.
"You're the one getting angry and name-calling about some true statements I made about an Office suite. "
Why do you think I am angy? I am simply pointing out your lies. Why would I get angry about that?
"If you get angry when someone speaks ill of a piece of software which isn't your own, you're a fanboy idiot. "Nooo, OpenOffice is holy! You lie, you lie! It's not true!! *sniff*""
Since I destroyed your straw man I guess this sentence is moot.
Keep shilling though, god knows MS needs help from the likes of you!.
Companies have marketing departments and ad agencies to get the word out about their products. Open source software has you. Who else is supposed to do it?
"Gee, I don't know, maybe the fact that is a discussion on a vulnerability which was found in PowerPoint? That vulnerability didn't find itself."
Lying again I see. The vulnaribility was not found by MS doing an audit. Most windows and office vulnarilibilities are not found by MS doing an audit.
RE:ODF. You provide a press release by MS to prove that it will be read/write and will not be crippled?
"Even if OOo was as richly scriptable as Office (which it simply isn't), it's multiplatform and thus can't have the same integration with other parts of the OS."
Why not?
""Yes you are."? I hate replying to a post only to realise I'm responding to someone with a mental age of a schoolboy.."
YEs you are. I can tell because you lie so much. Lying is intervowen to the MS culture and the fanbois are no exception. Keep shilling though my boy. The world needs more MS shills that's for sure.
Yes everybody should use the slower, more expensive solution until you can get Xen to work.
"you've got machines with RAM to spare, "
If you have enough RAM for access you have enough ram for office.
"you're not going to need support,"
If you need support you can buy it from Sun. You may have heard about Sun. I think they are a pretty large company.
"you're not going to need the pre-written macro code which is everywhere for Office,"
Office by default will not let you execute macros. Most organizations turn off the macro execution as a group policy in AD. Having said that if you have willingly chosen to open up your desktop to macro exploits and have willingly chosen to lock yourself to a vendor then you can't switch. Vendor lock sucks for an organization though. From now on you are no longer allowed to use any non MS office software ever. Good for them, sucks for you.
"you don't need the excellent VBA IDE,"
See above. You can script OO in python though, much better then VBA as far as I am concerned. There are several python IDEs around too last I checked.
"you don't need the excellent documentation,"
Wait let me check my office manual to see if it's better then the OO manual. Ooops looks like I didn't get an office manual. Seriously... There is excellent OO documentation. There are also several books which are cheaper then office.
"you're not going to use the entire systems implemented in Office (Excel and Access systems are commonplace where I work, they're commercial and not in-house software)"
If you are buying commercial apps they can (and should) use the office developer toolkit to deliver you a runtime. If they are forcing you to buy office just to run their apps then you are getting screwed. Also see the above remark about vendor lock.
"you don't mind not being able to properly use the documents everyone outside your organisation will be using, and the documents your employees will be bringing from home,"
Keep a copy of office around for those rare documents that don't translate properly. Tell your employees to use OO at home if they want to work from home. All companies have document standards.
"you don't mind the GUI not matching the rest of your system,"
When office 2007 comes out the GUI of OO will more closely match your XP box then office will.
"you don't mind using a piece of software which no-one will have audited,"
What makes you think office was audited? Who audited that commercial software package you got from that commercial vendor (you know the one that requires office to run). Who audited that messenger program half of your staff is using? I have news for you. 100% of the corporations in the world are running at least one piece of un-audited software.
"you can't wait for Office 2007 for ODF,"
The ODF support in 2007 will be read only. It will also be crippled from the looks of it.
"and you don't need a rich macro API."
You have no idea what you are talking about. None at all. Every part of OO is scriptable.
"Disclaimer: I'm not an MS fanboy, "
Yes you are. If you weren't you would not have lied so much.
The article specifially mentions ROR which is stupid because ROR is all about good coding practices and maintenance. When you create a controller or a model ROR automatically creates a test for you. The test is minimal to be sure but you no longer have the excuse and it's trivial to expand the case. ROR also encourages MVC and dozens of other patterns.
ROR is the wrong example in this case. The right example is ASP.NET which encourages sloppy practices like embedding SQL in code and Crystal reports which is well an abomination as far as I am concerned. Visual studio didn't even support unit testing till 2005 for gods sake and MS still discourages the use of object persistence layers.
"Why should Skype have patented this, and how does this negatively affect Skype?"
Skype didn't patent it because it would mean revealing the implementation and it would provide a point of attack to the phone companies.
Reverse engineering is legal in most of the world so there is nothing to protect them now. Of course they could get a patent now but somehow I don't think they will. Ebay isn't really a smart company and they bought skype on a whim, they never knew what to do with it anyway. I think they will just ignore this and up their marketing like all other US companies do.
"Just the kind of "this is true because it supports my partisan opinions" rationale that made the forgeries so easy for Dan to believe despite the lack of substantiation and the problematic nature of what little"
It's a demonstrated fact that Bush went AWOL. Sorry but that's true.
I just got done reading an article where ROR was able to handle 1.1 million hits per day. So if you think your web site will need less then 1 million hits per day then the increased productivity of ROR is probably worth it.
If you think you will need more then 1.1 million hits per day then you are probably better off going to something else (for now anyway).
"But the modern approach is to define your data as classes and have schema generation (or something called 'meet in the middle', where schema and class definitions interact). Rails gets it the wrong way round - the relational database is a very poor place to define object models - this was a lesson learned decades ago (but apparently, not learned by Rails)."
Rails can do that. It's called migrations. You should look into it. They are really cool. Once again you need to learn about the thing your are pissing on because it makes you look stupid when you claim something that isn't true.
"Of course you can create mappings, but this does not help, for example, suppose someone creates additional fields - your mapped classes will pick those up automatically. Your code is still vunerable to schema changes in ways that more robust ORMs aren't. As shipped, and as intended to be used, Rails is fragile."
Again that's the whole point of rails. That's a feature not a bug. So you add five fields now what? Sure activerecord knows about them but since none of your other code is aware of them the fields are never called. No harm no foul.
"I have used it, and I have researched it in detail."
I don't believe you.
"I think you need to take a much deeper look at other technologies (especially modern JDO 2.0 implementations like Kodo, and associated tools) before posting again - you will find some awesome stuff - the ability to define queries in portable languages, and like really high performance transaction handling."
No thanks. I have given up Java for good. I am not going back ever. You can keep it. I refuse to code in it again either for pleasure or for a job. Lucky for me I don't have to.
"Sorry, but this is wildly out of date. J2EE can be just as DRY as rails. "
No it can't. As you said you need a mapper file to map your database to your objects.
"For example, with Hibernate and with other ORMs used with J2EE, you can generate you Java classes from a database schema (or part of that schema). However, unlike Rails, this is only done when you request it."
Once again that's precicely the point. Class generation has been around for decades now. Rails specifically didn't want to do that.
"This is not the case with Rails, as use of different databases may require different column name conventions and changes."
It's becoming obvious to me that you have never used rails or even ruby. In rails you can create all the mappings you want. You just do them in your class instead of an external file and you do them only if you want to rename a field. You can can even attach to different databases at runtime. For example if you have a activerecord defined as people but you have 50 databases (one for each client let's say) when you instanticate the people object you can attach to any database you want.
I think you really should use the framework before making remarks about it. It's clear that you are simply talking out of your butt.
"Don't you think I did?"
i ndex.html. Right there the third bullet point (right after support) is windows support.
No I don't think you did at all. Right there under the products is their product which is called xen enterprise. Here is the link. http://www.xensource.com/products/xen_enterprise/
"Sorry, to be a competitor to VMWare or VirtualPC it has to run a *lot* more operating systems than that. Hell, even FreeBSD would be a start. But as I said without Windows support it's in no way a competitor and never will be."
Now that we know that statement was based on ignorance will you admit that xen is a competitor to VMware?
"No one cares about Xen. Microsoft made a copy of VPC free to drum up business for a product they just bought. "
What a bunch of crock. MS bought a company that was selling a product and making money on it. Xen directly caused VMware to start giving away one of the products which in turn made it impossible for Ms to recover it's investment in the company they bought.
"You still need to have a valid licence to run Windows on it or VMWare. "
Except that they just announced that you don't need to for the first four VMs.
"Where are you going to get support for Xen from?"
http://www.xensource.com/
"Does Xen even come close to providing what VMWare workstation or ESX can do?"
Yes it does. Some people even claim it's better then Vmware workstation and ESX.
"People are only running scared from OSS in the minds of many Slashdot users and bloggers no one cares about."
Right that's why MS executives fly all over the world trying their damndest to stop countries and corporations from switching.
Sorry dude even MS now admits they are worried. You need to get your big book of astro turfing updated.
Oh and to the guy said you can't run windows in Xen see the xensource.com web site.
If you are running a billion hits per day then ROR is probably not good enough for you. As you said even Java is barely good enough.
I do pity your staff if they are maintaining a web site like that in C++ though. I would hate to be them for sure.
Anyway it's good enough for most of us. The ROR guys readily admit that it's not suitable for everybody. I for one think that writing a web site from day one to handle a billion hits per day is premature optimization of the worst kind. When you think about it a billion hits a day would require all kinds of architecture decisions and virtually no syncronous processing at all. That's a very tall order indeed. You could (and should) spend the first six months to a year doing nothing but planning in order to build a site like that no matter what language or framework you chose.
ROR is for people who want to build web sites that can take a moderate to heavy load. If your site becomes so popular that it crushes ROR then you will have to migrate to something else. Hopefully by then you have lots of money to spend on help.
Yes but users don't pay. They just bitch. that's the problem with open source. Not enough people want to help but everybody wants to leech.
What a powerful demonstration of exatly how disruptive open source is. As soon as Xen started picking up some steam and press VMware made their server free and now MS not only makes their virtual PC free they also forgo profits on four copies of vista enterprise.
I can't seem to find how much Ms paid for connectix (anybody know?) but that's millions of dollars Ms spent that they will never make a penny on. Windows 2003 server enterprise cost anywhere from 2500 to 5000 depending on your volume and such, if vista costs about the same then they are also giving up 10 to 20 thousand dollars of profit for every install of virtualPC.
All that just to compete with Xen.
Amazing.
Well those types of frameworks already exist. J2EE immediately comes to mind as well as hibernate, ibatis etc. The rails people have produced an alternative to those types of frameworks because they didn't want to define something in two places (or three or four or five or sixteen). In other words it's not a bug, it's a feature.
If you don't like that feature of Rails then it's not for you but DRY is a major selling point of rails. It sounds like you would be more comfortable with J2EE.
"The thing is, it leads to fragile code. Changes in a schema lead automatically to changes in code, which are potentially hard to trace, as they happen only at run time."
I have never used any framework where changing the schema didn't lead to all kinds of problems. Rails is actually more resilient then most because objects automatically morph with the change and with frequent use of iterators it drastically reduces the amount of code that needs to be fiddled with.
Django:
Overall very nice. No capistrano, no migrations, no built in support the unit testing like rails. Great admin interface, very fast.
Symfony:
Don't know, never used it, never will because it's PHP and I don't like PHP anymore.
Zope:
Aaah zope. So much innovation, so much potential, so much going for it but in the end so hard to learn and use. Very slow. documentation not all that great. TTW design is a HUGE drain on productivity. No support to deployments. You can keep your stinkin migrations because we have a object oriented database. Testing is a pain. I actually like aquisition. It's great the security is built in. There are too many half asses, half finished, half functional products which all have weird dependencies on other broken products. Where are the gems or CPAN?
I think zope is brilliant but I also think it's wasted potential. For some reason this great and innovative framework has not produced the likes of wordpress, sourceforge, a halfway decent bug tracking system, or anything else (except for plone of course). A good framework should produce great products and zope has failed in that.
Interesting observations. I have two questions though.
1) Are you advocating the use of object oriented databases or plain files instead of relational databases?
2) Since ruby on rails already powers sites that get thousands of hits per minute it seems to me that it would be perfomant enought for 99.9% of most web sites out there. Was there some specific web site you wanted to build?
Probably not because virtual PC is so inferior to VMware. They are not even in the same league really.
Interesting. You are saying that we should not learn or use rails because the web is going to die any day now.
Interesting prediction there. DO you have a date in mind? When will web development die?
"I do agree with his basic statement that "no matter what MS does, people will bash them for it". /. public typically paint off MS in black and Linux in white. "
OK. So what? Why is this so offensive to you? Linux is a community effort and it's normal for people to rally around their communities, whether it's yoru neighborhood, school, state, club or whatever. It's not normal to rally around a corporation. In fact I think it's kind of sick.
"One can idly stand by and wait for the whole world to believe half-truths and biased, unbased opinions or one can choose to react and try to give people a more balenced view of reality in hope of actually enabling them to make choices based on facts instead of mere FUD."
That's a fine statement to make in the abstract. When you make it in order to defend a corporation against it's customers it turns out to be creepy.
"I guess it's the eternal struggle against ignorance."
Only if you define ignorance as being "people who do not repeat our commercials word for word". Again quite creepy.
You know what would really work? Hype pornzilla. Maybe take a popular web site and make it firefox only. People are going to need a nudge.