[KwasiOwusu]

"Then you might as well quit posting on these threads, as you do not know what you're talking about"

Very funny.
Not using an open source , communist piece of garbage does not make anyone closed minded.
It makes me part of the 90% of the population still uses only Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Being part of the ABM (Anything But Microsoft) funnies, and defining yourself by how much anti-Microsoft hate you can generate per day like you is what makes you a screwed up conspiracy theory nut case.

"The closed-mindedness isn't good either, and much worse than the zealotry you claim of the free software advocates"

You want closed mindedness, try the Gates-hating, Microsft-hating open source crazies.
They are the Ayatollahs of closed mindedness.

[antiRepublicrat]

Not using an open source , communist piece of garbage does not make anyone closed minded.

Open source is communist? Please remember to point that out to the owner of Free Republic. And, yes, cloed minded. You're trashing something you've never even used. I'm trashing a product (IE) that I've used since its release.

and defining yourself by how much anti-Microsoft hate you can generate per day like you is what makes you a screwed up conspiracy theory nut case.

Unlike you, I use those products I'm talking about every single day. My daily work is .NET, Visual Studio, Windows Server 2003 (with IIS 6), SQL Server 2000, IE, and other Microsoft software. When I say I hate designing for IE for a specific reason, it's because I have designed for it and encountered its problems, not because I thought something was "commie" and refused to use it.