[TriLUG] Open Source Empowerment

[Roy Vestal]

I have to pipe in here.

On my windows box at work, I have IE (duh!). I also have Mozilla.
Hmmmm....well, in order to DOWNLOAD anything, I have to use Mozilla, because
IE crashes.

Keep in mind if you use IE without the patches out there, you will be
nachi'ed/blaster'd/wormed/trojaned, etc. However, Mozilla doesn't have
Visual Basic Scripting or other standard MS OLE standards included,
therefore it's much HARDER for these kind of "bugs" to get through. Oh yeah,
my shockwave/flash/happy plugins work fine. I just followed the directions
at the website.

Just my $0.02
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Bullock" <cgbullock at cox.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Open Source Empowerment


>
>
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
> > Jim Ray wrote:
> >
> >> MS doesn't do the fixing.  never deal with a fixer that doesn't care
> >> about
> >> the customer.  you aren't locked into one fixer no matter what OS you
> >> use.
> >
> >
> > You aren't?  So, just out of curiosity, then, do you know of a company
> > other than Microsoft that can fix bugs in IE?  No? I didn't think so.
> > That's *not* the case with programs like Mozilla or Konqueror.  Get your
> > facts straight, please.
>
> What bugs are you referring to?  I would rather have the reliability and
> stability of IE anyday over Mozilla and Konqueror.  As it is now I have
> Mozilla and Konqueror crash at least once a day, and I have never had IE
> crash.  And while talking about browsers, why cant these companies
> understand what a plug-in is?  You almost have to be a programmer to
> install the plug ins for Mozilla.
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