Strange log entries

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 9:56 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:30:26 -0500 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>
> >
> > exclaimed:
> > > Not my decision to make. And I'm not about to jeopardize my job over
> > > it. Will you provide me a job if I get fired because I gave our #1
> > > customer an ultimatum? Sorry to say, no one gets fired for using M$.
> > > (That is not to say that's the way it *should* be, it just *is* that
> > > way.)
> >
> > Tim makes a good point.  My office is basically a Winders house, I and a
> > few others have migrated.  The Nechi worm put our IT geeks into 3 days of
> > mandatory overtime hell.  I am sure that given one or 2 more of those
> > little beauties and more will move from the dark side.  Someone just need
> > to loose "ALOT" of valuable data and it will hit the fan.
>
> I wish it was that simple.  Some hardcore MS whores will never see the
> light, regardless of the consequences.  There will always be additional
> 3rd party apps on the market to assit in cleaning up with these messes,
> and further masking the crap coming from redmond.

I think it has to do more with market share than mythical "MS whores." That 
and the path of least resistence. Who cares if a site doesn't work with 
linux-based browsers, or Mozilla and Opera on Windows? 90% market share will 
do that. If large corporations start rolling out linux-based desktops in 
significant enough numbers to affect market share, the number of IE-only 
sites will diminish.

Even Linus Torvalds recently speculated that it will take 5 to 10 years for 
linux to be common on ordinary consumer's computers (the non-geekily inclined 
consumers, that is.). I do think, though, that in be 2 or 3 short years, 
linux will make a real dent in MS's straglehold of the consumer market. So I 
think the IE-only attitude with web developers will be ending soon, it just 
hasn't ended yet.

Regards, 
Tim


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