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Psychology of Hacks: Not necessarily defending anything but:

If you are selling something into a market, what customers do you target? Say you have developed an auto part, and you want to sell 1 million units? In this thought model, you can only make a part (code) that fits on one type of car at a time. Say there are two million Yugos (FireFox) and twenty million Fords (IE). So what market should you target: Yugos or Fords?

And what if the part you are making fits on all stock Fords (IE), but you have to have a CUSTOMIZED Yugo with another third-party part installed (FireFox) for your part to fit?

Then consider the availability of raw materials: how many more design (hacking source code) documents exist for Ford (IE) which has been around forever, than Yugo (FireFox) a relative newbie?

Now perhaps, if you have any logical understanding left, you will at least "get" the discussion. It's certainly NOT as cut and dried as it was the day that you drank the glass of grape juice with the LSD (Linux).; Posted by: PMC-CON Posted on: 01/28/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Also.. FreeBSD | 01/21/05

Yea IT Scion | 01/21/05

Are you stupid? FreeBSD | 01/22/05

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IIS Grayson Peddie | 01/22/05

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA htotten | 01/26/05

And then He can get E=McSquared | 01/26/05

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Uneducated writers writing humbug chiwawa | 01/21/05

Great point chiwawa - I liked this one, too: mlindl | 01/22/05

Uneducated readers writing complaints oasis268 | 01/22/05

As if Omch'Ar | 01/23/05

People can parrot the Redmond line all they want chiwawa | 01/26/05

Psychology of Hacks PMC-CON | 01/28/05

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! toadlife | 01/21/05

That is really sweet Jeff Spicoli | 01/22/05

FUD helps Firefox's gaining. pa2004 | 01/21/05

FUD helps Firefox's gaining??? AmusedAtItAll | 01/21/05

FUD. Yet another meaningless "word" tossed around by trolls James T. Kirk | 01/21/05

Flame Bait all the way nucrash | 01/21/05

Pathetic Letophoro | 01/21/05

Where's little Mikey been? drichards1953 | 01/22/05

You sound like Mike Cox CobraA1 | 01/24/05

can't buy a Dell with firefox sbj | 01/21/05

free download DarthRidiculous | 01/22/05

Sorry, but in order to enjoy........ Prognosticator | 01/22/05

firefox timswish@... | 01/22/05

Tabbed Browsing available for MSIE ! xtoptech@... | 01/25/05

Ditto! slurpee | 01/27/05

English translation Knorthern Knight | 01/22/05

Which beaches are you surfing? Squawkbox | 01/23/05

I'll bet you $1000..... hion2000 | 01/23/05

Rich, aren't we?! Anton Philidor | 01/24/05

Shouldn't your username be... Omch'Ar | 01/23/05

I've never run into that voska | 01/24/05

IE-specifc services bhayes@... | 01/26/05

Front Page? slurpee | 01/27/05

Let's look at IE's default settings.... Hugh Jass | 01/22/05

They atack IE because it is easy, ok people hate MS, and it has over 90% DonnieBoy | 01/22/05

Browser ID settings ReFoRMaT | 01/22/05

why would microsoft make IE better? hipparchus2000 | 01/22/05

When it gets to 50%, let us know ejhonda | 01/22/05

I use all sorts of stuff like e-banking, e-telephone bill site, webshops et hipparchus2000 | 01/22/05

Shock games don't work? That's news to me Squawkbox | 01/23/05

Shockwave games work perfectly here CobraA1 | 01/24/05

re: I use all sorts of stuff like e-banking, e-telephone bill site, webshop Arlyss | 01/27/05

ditto....no issues...including embedding now sent2null | 01/29/05

Re: When it gets to 50%, let us know bhartman24 | 01/22/05

I use FF at home and work ejhonda | 01/24/05

I've bumped into sites the IE won't work with voska | 01/24/05

FF on sans.org genome | 01/24/05

Is 23% good enough? S.Howard-Sarin

| 01/24/05

Not Surprising John Carroll

| 01/24/05

Still a record nonetheless, and I think it's appealing to non-techies also CobraA1 | 01/24/05

Ahhh but.... PA-ITGuy | 01/25/05

I'm no Techie cjm_z | 01/27/05

Not just tech sites. Jack-Booted EULA | 01/25/05

that good but misleading IT Scion | 01/26/05

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Netscape donashugh | 01/23/05

You're preaching to the choir here. Squawkbox | 01/23/05

um...Open Source? hion2000 | 01/23/05

Re: um...Open Source? ReFoRMaT | 01/23/05

OK, Let's define it like this then... Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Open Source Reviewing bhartman24 | 01/24/05

That and closed sources companies can deny it voska | 01/24/05

Catching Bugs bhartman24 | 01/25/05

The only people 'reviewing' the source code... obrad | 01/27/05

Remember Carl Sagan? PMC-CON | 01/28/05

Right On . . . . tcg25 | 01/26/05

Firefox bgms | 01/26/05

Style mtg_z | 01/23/05

Lack of CSS support??? K B | 01/23/05

Are you crazy?!? hion2000 | 01/23/05

Causing me problems... Mike Cox | 01/23/05

Message has been deleted. Squawkbox | 01/23/05

Consider yourself lucky... Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

6.5 Real World | 01/24/05

That's disgusting behavior bill@... | 01/25/05

why disgusting .... kp3649 | 01/26/05

Mmmm not very good policy... kokuryu | 01/26/05

How odd. Tony3101 | 01/26/05

"you could do better than to call people liars in a forum!" daniel7c7d | 01/27/05

Mike, That sure is good bait your using! cjm_z | 01/27/05

Flashkey Funzies robertltux | 01/26/05

Obviously a False Story PMC-CON | 01/28/05

FANTASTIC!! Good solid competition makes everyone Laff | 01/23/05

Consumer websites Anton Philidor | 01/23/05

Business and Home use Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Security as a sales advantage Anton Philidor | 01/24/05

Concern for profit Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

A wall, not a bunker. Anton Philidor | 01/24/05

Security is driving FireFox voska | 01/24/05

Reached the limit of the discussion Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Nice Post / Analysis PMC-CON | 01/28/05

FF is good, but I still prefer IE... ObiWayneKenobi | 01/23/05

Why "trolls" prefer FF Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Windows bigotry tic swayback | 01/24/05

Many Misconceptions PMC-CON | 01/28/05

Now Now... John Carroll

| 01/24/05

I think it's some we will have to get used to voska | 01/24/05

Not just a media frenzie... Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Evolution John Carroll

| 01/24/05

Re: Evolution Anti_Zealot | 01/25/05

Open standards allow for evolution tic swayback | 01/25/05

To Tic Swayback John Carroll

| 01/25/05

Very right Anti_Zealot | 01/24/05

Standards John Carroll

| 01/24/05

John, you kill me JasonL31 | 01/24/05

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I can run executables from the FF voska | 01/24/05

You must love viruses CobraA1 | 01/24/05

You must be joking, right! Grayson Peddie | 01/24/05

So what you're saying... Omch'Ar | 01/24/05

i have to ask... Monkey_MCSE | 01/24/05

I'm not joking, and I'm not taking it back either CobraA1 | 01/24/05

You all misunderstood... ObiWayneKenobi | 01/25/05

FF is good, but I still prefer IE... Gregory.J.Bradley@... | 01/26/05

PRIME EXAMPLE OF MICROSOFT STUPIDITY itanalyst | 01/23/05

ROTFLMAO Squawkbox | 01/23/05

hahaha ecbpro | 01/24/05

Message has been deleted. Jeff Spicoli | 01/24/05

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