Honestly, I tried to be good!
NOTE - I originally started this post... um.. a while ago. not fresh, but still relevant.
I read this story about the latest MS Windows patch, and how they're STILL playing catch-up to fix bad coding practices (bugs) in a years-old product they won't be replacing for another year... and chuckled a bit.
I mean MS Windows is certainly a big complicated pile of code, with a lot of legacy crap that MS just can't seem to let go of... fair enough... but Internet Explorer... let's remember that it's an "integrated part of the Operating System"... can't remove it, no-no-no! IE6 has been out... what... two, three years... and was just a re-dress of IE5.5, which... it basically goes back to IE4... MS has basically had 8 years to refine, tune and lock down this stupid browser. Come on. Firefox is not perfect. It hasn't been around nearly as long, it's been developed as an open-source project, it's a cross-platform browser... it's free... AND it works better than IE.
I don't know. I mean I feel for all you Windows users out there... I really do. They've got you by the short-n-curlies, and it's sad. It's like being in a bad marriage, but not one so bad that your life is threatened if you stay... one where the aparent cost of leaving and the aparent cost of staying are about the same. ...but they're really not.
My advice? Well... I would suggest aggressively weaning oneself off MS Windows. Start by using OpenOffice.org or some other ODF-compliant suite. ... or, even better, write in plain text! You can get OpenOffice.org for MS Windows... start converting your old docs to ODF and creating your new ones in ODF... You can also make a difference by sending your document out in the original ODF rather than pre-emtively converting them to some other, inferior format. Stop using IE. Use Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Dillo, Galleon, Konqueror, et cetera... There are plenty of browsers out there.
As for content that "can only be viewed" in MS Windows Media Player? The short answer is, "Too bad." Support open formats. Ogg, theora, flac, speex, png. If you don't view content that requires proprietary software, eventually the creators of websites will stop posting it.
You have a choice. You can choose to be a person or a "consumer".
It's not just about free as in beer... it's free as in speech and liberty and lack of encumbrance. Richard Stallman may be a bit of an eccentric... some would say kook... but I silently thank him every time I boot up or logon to a GNU/Linux system.
I read this story about the latest MS Windows patch, and how they're STILL playing catch-up to fix bad coding practices (bugs) in a years-old product they won't be replacing for another year... and chuckled a bit.
I mean MS Windows is certainly a big complicated pile of code, with a lot of legacy crap that MS just can't seem to let go of... fair enough... but Internet Explorer... let's remember that it's an "integrated part of the Operating System"... can't remove it, no-no-no! IE6 has been out... what... two, three years... and was just a re-dress of IE5.5, which... it basically goes back to IE4... MS has basically had 8 years to refine, tune and lock down this stupid browser. Come on. Firefox is not perfect. It hasn't been around nearly as long, it's been developed as an open-source project, it's a cross-platform browser... it's free... AND it works better than IE.
I don't know. I mean I feel for all you Windows users out there... I really do. They've got you by the short-n-curlies, and it's sad. It's like being in a bad marriage, but not one so bad that your life is threatened if you stay... one where the aparent cost of leaving and the aparent cost of staying are about the same. ...but they're really not.
My advice? Well... I would suggest aggressively weaning oneself off MS Windows. Start by using OpenOffice.org or some other ODF-compliant suite. ... or, even better, write in plain text! You can get OpenOffice.org for MS Windows... start converting your old docs to ODF and creating your new ones in ODF... You can also make a difference by sending your document out in the original ODF rather than pre-emtively converting them to some other, inferior format. Stop using IE. Use Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Dillo, Galleon, Konqueror, et cetera... There are plenty of browsers out there.
As for content that "can only be viewed" in MS Windows Media Player? The short answer is, "Too bad." Support open formats. Ogg, theora, flac, speex, png. If you don't view content that requires proprietary software, eventually the creators of websites will stop posting it.
You have a choice. You can choose to be a person or a "consumer".
It's not just about free as in beer... it's free as in speech and liberty and lack of encumbrance. Richard Stallman may be a bit of an eccentric... some would say kook... but I silently thank him every time I boot up or logon to a GNU/Linux system.
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