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Re: Seems that Firefox had its own problems....
de Craig 04/23/2006 07:16
»Q« wrote:
> Craig <netburgherAT@gmail.com> wrote in
> <news:oun2g.74203$dW3.39414@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>:
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>>bambam wrote:
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>>>»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote in
>>>»news:MrQ97ACC3B26B35FitsmeitsQ@QsFQDN.dyndns.org:
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>>>>>What about this (taken from ZDNet's gouru George Ou)
>>>>>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=154
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>>>>That page now says, "I have to retract any incorrect statements
>>>>and apologize to the Mozilla foundation [sic] for the
>>>>misunderstanding based on a bad source that seemed legitimate at
>>>>the time." And he's struck out the incorrect statements you had
>>>>cut-and-pasted.
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>>>He just about crossed out the whole article, bet that hurt. ;)
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>>Sure beats what his source (The Burning Edge) apparently did
>>though...He just hit the big <del> key as if it never happened.
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>>mistake? where?
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> I'm not what Ou was talking about, but I can take a guess...
> Again, I'm just guessing based on the way Mozilla works and the way The
> Burning Edge works, but ISTM Ou wrote an embarrassingly wrong blog
> entry and didn't want to take full responsibility for his
> misunderstanding and lack of research.
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It's not the first time Ou's opened his mouth w/o first checking the
facts. His hatchet-job on OpenOffice comes to mind. Sad thing is, we
need a voice to balance the FOSS evangelists' view...But Ou continues to
/bury/ his credibility.
-Craig