Slashdot is my favorite site, open source software, a Linux admin and avid BSD user. I have lost some respect for slashdot today when its posting political spin including a link to aljazeera no less to prop up the credibility of the story, There is plenty of sites out there for the political spin.....disappointed
Blasphemy : Mark Shuttleworth and Andrew Orlowski in the same Paragraph
Mark is a God, I am in homage to him, (also as a Ubuntu user)
Fellow "/.ers"
Andrew Orlowski is a pathetic writer, that does not share any of our views..
wikipedia sums it up better than I do .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Orlowski
Its not the point which is one is more secure and which isn't, though I disagree that a 3 month string of quickly released patches compares to the decade of the Bataan death march of Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities. What is the underlying issue, that goes to the heart of all issues when you compare them and its not open source or proprietary software or which is more secure or who's the market leader and who's the rising star of the browser wars.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
With one of the above mentioned browsers you have it, and the other you don't.
You don't like Firefox, delete it, try and do the same with IE, its like cancer you can't get it all but I will feel like its gone. That is till you have to update your operating system...oh too bad guess you don't have a choice do you. Some Mega Corporation who gobbled up the company that made the second rate browser only updates through "their" browser. Well don't feel bad the combined might of the US government couldn't get the Browser out either.
I hope someday I will be able to rip it out so I can get rid of the 3 other programs I installed because of IE. Ad aware, Spywareblaster and Spybot search and destroy
Don't get me wrong I love the programs but in the the last 2 years I have used them I have yet to have to rip out any Spyware from any version of Mozilla. Which is funny because I only used Mozilla to surf how could Spyware infect the browser I wasn't EVEN using. I just wish I could uninstall it, but sure is nice that if I am pissed at Firefox I can.
I would just like to see a writer do an article on that. How many windows users after the frustration of having their computer turned into a virus factory tried the to go the the ADD and REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS and try to uninstall IE only to still find on their system and that is still gets infected. Not much fun in that article, no controversy, no flames from the Slashdot crew, no interest.
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their mind."
-- Dante - "Monarchy" (1309)
"and even fewer of us have it with our software" sfabkk
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Slashdot is my favorite site, open source software, a Linux admin and avid BSD user. I have lost some respect for slashdot today when its posting political spin including a link to aljazeera no less to prop up the credibility of the story, There is plenty of sites out there for the political spin. ....disappointed
Blasphemy : Mark Shuttleworth and Andrew Orlowski in the same Paragraph Mark is a God, I am in homage to him, (also as a Ubuntu user) Fellow "/.ers" Andrew Orlowski is a pathetic writer, that does not share any of our views.. wikipedia sums it up better than I do . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Orlowski
Firefox versus IE,
...oh too bad guess you don't have a choice do you. Some Mega Corporation who gobbled up the company that made the second rate browser only updates through "their" browser. Well don't feel bad the combined might of the US government couldn't get the Browser out either.
;-)
Its not the point which is one is more secure and which isn't, though I disagree that a 3 month string of quickly released patches compares to the decade of the Bataan death march of Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities. What is the underlying issue, that goes to the heart of all issues when you compare them and its not open source or proprietary software or which is more secure or who's the market leader and who's the rising star of the browser wars.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
With one of the above mentioned browsers you have it, and the other you don't.
You don't like Firefox, delete it, try and do the same with IE, its like cancer you can't get it all but I will feel like its gone. That is till you have to update your operating system
I hope someday I will be able to rip it out so I can get rid of the 3 other programs I installed because of IE.
Ad aware, Spywareblaster and Spybot search and destroy
Don't get me wrong I love the programs but in the the last 2 years I have used them I have yet to have to rip out any Spyware from any version of Mozilla. Which is funny because I only used Mozilla to surf how could Spyware infect the browser I wasn't EVEN using. I just wish I could uninstall it, but sure is nice that if I am pissed at Firefox I can.
I would just like to see a writer do an article on that. How many windows users after the frustration of having their computer turned into a virus factory tried the to go the the ADD and REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS and try to uninstall IE only to still find on their system and that is still gets infected. Not much fun in that article, no controversy, no flames from the Slashdot crew, no interest.
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their mind."
-- Dante - "Monarchy" (1309)
"and even fewer of us have it with our software"
sfabkk
That is if Microsoft is involved