Actually, Mozilla has had support for XMLHTTPRequest for a long time, the API is almost the same, the difference is in maybe two lines of code when you initialize it...
I think that the interesting thing in this situation is the fact that programmers in general seem to be in favor of OSS, unlike the textile workers that protested massively over being made unemployed...
Programmers don't have any union organisations... We don't seem to care that we are making each other unemployed... At some level, Bill Gates is right - OSS is killing jobs - not jobs in general, but programming jobs.
I myself am an OSS advocate because my heart tells me to be so, but my brain tells me: shut up and your web development business will get more clients - building a web shop will give me at leat 200 work hours, while installing OScommerce takes maybe 10...
Wow... it is now official - I have defended Bill Gates... please mod Ziggamon2.0 down to hell just as his predecessor.
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Actually, Mozilla has had support for XMLHTTPRequest for a long time, the API is almost the same, the difference is in maybe two lines of code when you initialize it...
I think that the interesting thing in this situation is the fact that programmers in general seem to be in favor of OSS, unlike the textile workers that protested massively over being made unemployed...
Programmers don't have any union organisations... We don't seem to care that we are making each other unemployed... At some level, Bill Gates is right - OSS is killing jobs - not jobs in general, but programming jobs.
I myself am an OSS advocate because my heart tells me to be so, but my brain tells me: shut up and your web development business will get more clients - building a web shop will give me at leat 200 work hours, while installing OScommerce takes maybe 10...
Wow... it is now official - I have defended Bill Gates... please mod Ziggamon2.0 down to hell just as his predecessor.