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Architects and others in the construction industry know what this is like
because Autodesk controls the entire U.S. construction industry. Autodesk
sells crippleware CAD and its products are qualitatively trash yet they
continue to control the entire industry after imposing a proprietary file
format in the mid 1980s which has allowed the company to rape and pillage
the U.S. construction industry one the construction industry participants
became locked in.
In fact, the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) states in
recent studies that this type of crippleware is costing the U.S.
construction industry over $15 billion annually. Yes, they said $15 BILLION
ANNUALLY!!!
It would be interesting to learn how many tens of billions Microsoft
crippleware has cost America. All I know is $15 billion each and every year
and growing larger and larger is a hell of a price to pay.
Its also become a hell of a price to pay to Microsoft for "free" software
like a browser that has been used in a manner to destroy the web so as to
maintain artificial control of markets at the expense of the customer rather
than any actual competitor.
So the answer is really simple actually. Unlike architects and others who
have decades of proprietary file assets which continues to prevent any
reasonable choice in the matter of change Microsoft has only controlled the
"perception " of those using IE and has no proprietary files that prevent
anybody from choosing to use any other browser.
Microsoft did control the proprietary use of ActiveX controls which
dominated Intranets and enterprise development for some time but quite
frankly, the use of ActiveX is dead and web development need not rely on any
ActiveX controls for several years now.
So the answer is actually really quite simple. Abusers continue to abuse
until they are forced to stop abusing and the only power Microsoft has to
abuse anybody is simply a misplace perception.
All people need to do is use the power they really have to stop the abuser;
the freedom of choice. The power to control your own mind and change your
perception which leads to a change of behavior. It is your change of
behavior Microsoft fears most. Microsoft actually fears its own customers
more than they fear any competitor. I understand this phenomena and I hope I
am helping others to do so.
Choosing to put an 88x31 "button" image on a website stating the website
only functions with browsers that support W3C Standards and disallowing the
website to function for those using any version of IE is the way to free
ourselves of this scourge on humanity once and for all. At this point in
time it would be painless to do so as there are no more ActiveX controls and
no proprietary file assets that can cost so much to change. All that needs
to be changed in your mind!
Its just like quitting smoking cigarettes. Very difficult to do initially
but once you make up your mind and do it you look back and laugh at yourself
at how ridiculously easy it actually was once you stopped deceiving yourself
and realized the whole thing was in your mind which is the only means to
control behavior. That's all Microsoft has. Deception and your false
perceptions.
I'm finally now using another browser and while I will continue to develop
web applications using ASP.NET I will be practicing what I preach. The
billions of dollars this abusive corporation has unjustly imposed upon the
human race is simply too much to pay and I cannot in good concience continue
to be a part of it.
The joke they call IE7 proves to me Microsoft is not serious and remains
nothing more than a company of lying manipulating pimps who intend to
continue imposing great losses of time and money upon the human race while
spending unknown number of millions of dollars pampering a false perception
that they have changed. It is easy and correct to compare Microsoft to an
alcoholic or a herion addict. Same behavior model. Lies. Lies. Lies
Recidivism. Recidivism. Recidivism. Lies. Lies. Lies not different than the
woman whose husband beats her because "he loves her" and unless she
eventually finds the courage to change her mind she will die at his abusive
hand.
When people understand how insidious Microsoft's control of their minds has
become they must also find freedom to choose differnetly or die. The choice
is still ours to make and its our choice and our freedom to choose that is
important because it is that freedom to choose and that alone that Microsoft
has successfully controlled.
Since Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4 this company's browsers have became
analagous to the AIDs of the Internet and like a real dangerous and
insidious virus, the virus known as Internet Explorer must be eradicated
from the face of the earth or tens of millions of individuals and companies
alike will continue to waste their hard earned wealth throwing their pearls
after swine.
Like abused women married to men who love them Microsoft will continue to
come home and beat us all until we choose to leave once and for all or until
we are beaten to death.
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee. com
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