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- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:43:05 +0900
- From: "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] Why Vista Sucks (was: linux: it's becoming ubiquitous)
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On 25/03/2008, SL Baur <steve@example.com> wrote: > On 3/25/08, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote: > > > http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html > > Joel has some useful ideas on stuff, but if you had to pick one of his articles > that I thought he was the most wrong on, and another one, well, you've done it. Which one did you strongly disagree with, the IE8 one or the API War one? > The IE8 article isn't bad, but completely misses the point. I thought the point was quite apropos: if you fuck up standards support, it is hard to come back from that, because all of your users think your browser is broken when it only *was* broken. ;) > And your point is? That Vista's lack of popularity is largely due to the outcome of the pragmatists vs. idealists war at Microsoft. That is an interesting story, and has some lessons that are important for Open Source as well. Cast aside backwards compatibility only with great care and a lot of forethought. -- Cheers, Josh
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