I disagree with his dig at Internet Explorer versus free software browsers.
Mozilla has some very serious flaws that have been around since 2002 that would have definately been fixed if it was a Microsoft based product because people would have one target to complain at that would throw resources at the product to get it fixed or people would sue etc etc, especially when it is very serious human-computer issues like not being able to print documents (don't tell me about the paperless office, we're currently using more paper than ever in human history)
While I'm an open source advocate, let's not forget that there are some things that commercial software IS better at because it simply HAS to work. Firefox, for example, receives a million new features from a million monkeys typing code on every release, but some serious issues going back to 2002 are not addressed, meanwhile, IE -- being pretty minimal in feature set, more or less works (well, it works if you're not concerned about web-standards! but standards is exactly what is being talked about in the speech).
I disagree with his dig at Internet Explorer versus free software browsers.
Mozilla has some very serious flaws that have been around since 2002 that would have definately been fixed if it was a Microsoft based product because people would have one target to complain at that would throw resources at the product to get it fixed or people would sue etc etc, especially when it is very serious human-computer issues like not being able to print documents (don't tell me about the paperless office, we're currently using more paper than ever in human history)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154892
While I'm an open source advocate, let's not forget that there are some things that commercial software IS better at because it simply HAS to work. Firefox, for example, receives a million new features from a million monkeys typing code on every release, but some serious issues going back to 2002 are not addressed, meanwhile, IE -- being pretty minimal in feature set, more or less works (well, it works if you're not concerned about web-standards! but standards is exactly what is being talked about in the speech).
December 11, 2006 - 16:31