RE: why linux?

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There are many web pages, including ones that I've written, that expect
> a browser to act a certain way.  If I suddenly get a religious epiphany
> and replace all my desktops with Linux and now deprive my users of
> properly functioning web pages then I'm the idiot for having made a poor
> business decision.

No, probably none of us have enough clout to stop Microsloth from using
market leverage to drive its competitors out of business. Nor do any of us
have the legal or moral right, much less the capability, to force others
to write web content in a way that doesn't demand any particular browser.

What we can do is (1) write our own web content to an "any browser"
standard, making no assumptions whatsoever about how it will look, and no
attempts to over-control, (2) whenever we have content that is worthless
unless formatted correctly, use PDF rather than HTML, and (3) politely
inform people when their pages are unnecessarily browser-specific, and
point them to anybrowser.org, since they might not even know (particularly
if they're hobbyists) the problem exists.

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JHHL