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To: Connie Cardullo
Anybody who attaches their "ego" to percentages of browser use is in a sorry state of affairs.

I agree. But what else did you expect from OSS geeks who live in their parents' basements, have terrible hygiene, and couldn't get a date to save their lives?
45 posted on 08/26/2005 8:04:44 PM PDT by Bush2000 (Linux -- You Get What You Pay For ... (tm)
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To: Bush2000
You seem to care about the percentages a lot. Less tahn 1 % change. And you sound like you won the lottery. Who cares what browser people use. Microsoft gives theres away just like Firefox does.
49 posted on 08/26/2005 8:13:31 PM PDT by Connie Cardullo
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To: Bush2000
I agree. But what else did you expect from OSS geeks who live in their parents' basements, have terrible hygiene, and couldn't get a date to save their lives?

Actually, I'm in a hotel room in Maui, just got out of the shower after my run, and my wife of many years is snoozing on the bed in front of me. Not that it's any of your business.

I've worked on the Internet, specifically protocols (my dissertation topic), for 21 years now, and networks for about a decade before that. And, for all that time, the operating system of professional use has been Unix, and I go way back to V6, and made the East Coast - West Coast transition in 1986 to working with Stanford's network-hacked version of BSD. I spent several sleepless days cleaning up after the Morris Worm, and later worked in the group that produced the first Internet firewall as well as what we now call VPNs. I'd tell you about the businesses I've founded and now consult with, but somehow I get the drift that you are unable to see beyond the "communist martyr" label. Shoes for industry, Compadre?

Anyone who trusts the security of code which he cannot see, or an operating system that was never designed for source-level control, is a fool.

214 posted on 08/27/2005 1:52:59 AM PDT by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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