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Boycott Novell would like to draw our attention to the fact that Microsoft is cheating at its browser ballot by including lesser known browsers that use MSHTML as their rendering engine. While I have not yet studied this enough to be sure, it sounds pretty ridiculous. The idea is to spur competition in the browser market. If AOL Explorer (or whatever monstrosity from the 90’s) is favored by consumers there is no reason to object.
Those silly nuts seem to have forgotten that both Safari and Chrome use WebKit and are eligible to be on the browser ballot. AnythingButMicrosoft™ right?
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I see from the link title that Roy is moving towards the headline style of the New York F’ing Times. Queef Alert!
Let me see if I’ve got this right. Advocates are quite happy to see Ubuntu take a 100% monopoly position in the desktop market — that’s OK, because it’s free. In the unlikely event that they’re even trying to do such a thing, Microsoft must not be allowed to take a 100% monopoly position in the browser market — which would not be OK, even though it’s free.
It’s 1998 all over again, isn’t it?
It’s an impossible task, I know, but somebody should alert Roy to the original reason that the EU took up the cudgels — back in 1998, people were actually selling browsers.
Now? Not so much.
The moment I read this on Ars Technica I had thought “I wonder how long it will take for Boycott Novell” to post this.
Even the ars article says “its a common javascript sorting mistake”. Even funnier is it puts IE last most consistently and Chrome always appears in the first 3 slots.
I wonder where the browser ballot for Ubuntu is staying at…
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