[PLUG] Firefox 4 - apology

Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timlick at ieee.org
Sat Mar 26 17:17:49 UTC 2011


No apologies necessary.  I for one, knew your were temporarily possessed by
some reactionary demon, and you would soon snap out of it.  Glad to have you
back.

-- Pat

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:52:23AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > The firefox developers, in their reciprocally infinite wisdom,
> ...
> > 3.6.17 and subsequent security upgrades.  I realize that some
> > people want the latest and greatest thing.  However, they are
> > not entitled to make that decision for others.  Perhaps
> > everything they own that is older than 3 years should be
> > confiscated, giving them a chance to test their philosophy
> > more generally.
> >
> > Grump, growl.
>
> That was uncalled for, and I apologize to the firefox developers.
> They are doing good things in a global software ecosystem which
> places little value on standards compliance, complexity management,
> backwards compatability, or rigor.  They are competing with M$
> eructations that are fast because they skip the code checks.
>
> In such a dangerous environment, survival can depend on
> abandoning the old and the weak, and not looking back.
>
> Perhaps I need another piece of code which automatically holds
> any email sent after midnight until I've confirmed it 8 hours
> later.  That would help with sleep-deprived oropedal insertion,
> and might be helpful for security, too.
>
> Keith
>
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