I believe our own beloved Son O Gawd, Adam, has said this. Or was it Want2BeFree? But it’s quite a common preen in the Looniverse, now that they’ve practically admitted that the only useful thing you can do on a Linux desktop is to run a browser, and now that IE9 (complete with compatibility mode, I should add) is actually more W3C — for which read OpenStandards™ — compliant than the competition.
Mention the browser, or HTML5, or CSS, or practically any related technology, in the tech press these days and you get blizzarded with comments about IE6. It makes me come over all nostalgic. It’s like those far off days when the Loons claimed that NT was nothing but a thin wrapper over MS-DOS ... wait, those days are not yet over.
To sum up, I present the Wisdom of the Gibbering One:
“Phenom lot of business I know who are stuck with IE6 there internal business website will not work with IE7 or IE8.
“Really the cost of badly written code is killing them. Slowly but surely.”
Note the subtle inversion from the argument “Nobody in their right mind would use IE6 when there are better, FOSS, alternatives around” to “Everybody is stuck with IE6 because their web-monkeys suck.”
Genius.
Oh, and let’s completely ignore the fact that the Internet Explorer developers held a cake party to celebrate IE6 usage dropping below 1%, shall we?
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Very closely related to, but I think differing from, DieIE6LongLiveXP™.


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“Really the cost of badly written code is killing them. Slowly but surely.”
This one is actually true, it’s just that the code in question is not Microsoft’s; it’s the crap that big-name software vendors dump on end users, that has severely damaged Windows brand reputation.
Thus, “note the subtle inversion.”
After which inversion, oiaohm’s entire argument turns to gibberish.
Normally it takes him at least three paragraphs (or 5% of the post, whichever comes first) to descend into total gibberish.
Never mind: they can always get the MillionEyes™ to rewrite it for them, can’t they?
“After which inversion, oiaohm’s entire argument turns to gibberish.”
As opposed to “before the inversion”, when it also was gibberish – I refuse to believe that there are any real deviations in his unthinking, or is it unthinkable, cognitive style; but then, I don’t read his… eee… – I will leave the definition of that to you – so I wouldn’t know.
Such wonder this internet, where even oiaohm is an expert of all-things – truly, we are blessed.
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“Never mind: they can always get the MillionEyes™ to rewrite it for them, can’t they?”
Why yes! And I can sell them to them!
By god, finally, I can rid myself of the useless bloody freetard eyes – now how much would those morons pay for them, I wonder?
Depends upon whether they are Serbian eyes or Croatian eyes.
You’re in the wrong business, mate. Moldovan kidneys, that’s the ticket. They’re cheap enough that, if you can’t actually keep them refrigerated long enough for a transplant, you can sell them to the Ritz in London as part of the “Great British Breakfast Deal: Only £19.95!”
At a pinch, you can always cross the border into Trans-Dniestr, where the FGB have been honing their moral response to the Syrian crisis for a good twenty years or so.
People have asked me, in all seriousness, whether oiaohm is, in fact, an expert in some of the fields that he claims.
Dr Johnson kicking a stone springs to mind.
Let me ask you this. If somebody in a decent suit with a proper haircut and a discreet signalling sort of a car, say a lower end Beemer, came up to you and proffered technical advice phrased as follows:
“Mr Smith lot of business I know who are stuck with IE6 there internal business website will not work with IE7 or IE8…”
Precisely how many seconds would it take you to show that nice young man the door?
But which door, I ask?
In the glorious realm of freetardia you seem to advance upwards until you finally f*ck the entire company up.
Though that may have had more to do with the pony tail, than crazy anti-MS idiocy (or did it, hmmm…).
“Depends upon whether they are Serbian eyes or Croatian eyes.”
Freetardia knows no nationality, and I will have you know, I’ve harvested premium quality freetarded eyes, alas they have fixed no problems as of yet…
Frankly, I think that they lied to me – freetarded eyes don’t do anything about the bugs (at all); I had to use insect repellent, just like every summer (and given how costly they were, I really feel I was taken for a ride – to say nothing about how the people who “donated” the eyes feel…).
John 14:2 —
“In my father’s house, there are many rooms.”
The only one that most Loons see is the basement, of course. But if you think about it, many rooms implies many doors …
I would suggest the one that leads directly to the middle lane of the nearest freeway, but that’s just me.
If only we had a time machine, to travel back and give such advice (dire warnings) to Sun.
> The only one that most Loons see is the basement
The only one that doesn’t have windows
*Snork*
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