Microsoft Must be held accountable.

JoeHill joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 11 15:45:02 UTC 2003


On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:55:19 -0400
Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> > In the end, my site gets less traffic than a dead end, so it's a
> > mighty small protest, but I guess you gotta start somewhere, no?
> 
> Err... what are protesting against again?  It seems you are punishing
> users, and enlarging the technical divide.
> 
It's a work in progress, and I'm still taking suggestions, as I say. I
don't see how I'm punishing users, as I am informing them exactly as to
how to access the site.

Of course, as in any act of protest, there is a sense of "polemic" that
cannot be extricated from the dialogue, and there will be those that
become yet more intransigent in their pro-MS ideology. That cannot be
avoided, and is all part of the idea of a "struggle".

I think I did do a fairly decent job of explaining, though, that I am
protesting the current modus of MS, in terms of security, business, and
overall  policy insofar as dominating the Internet and peripheral
industries, rather than pointing a finger at MS users.

> > Here is the redirect if anyone has any suggestions:
> > 
> > www.orderinchaos.org/ie_reject.php
> Is IE Explorer the origin of most of your concerns?  I do not see how
> them installing Mozilla will help... 

Not in particular, no. Of course IE is merely the "face" of Microsoft on
the Internet, and the identification of it is the means by which I hope
to get my message across. Perhaps I should reword the first paragraph to
make that more clear.

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