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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I used to be a big supporter of the “if
ain’t broke don’t fix it” POV. However, over the years I’ve
modified that to “support is broken if it’s too out of date or if
it’s too new”. I do my best to try to update to more recent
packages but stay away from beta stuff or even non-beta stuff before it’s
been out for about a month. The one month rule came after a major UNIX vendor
broker our systems on more than one occasion by suggesting we apply new patches
that didn’t fix anything already broken from our standpoint.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> ale-bounces@ale.org
[mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jerry
Yu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 08, 2008
10:32 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">ale@ale.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Firefox hits 20
percent market share</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>it may be not 'lazy', but
simply following a good operation mantra, "If it ain't break, don't fix
it". <br>
In many's eyes, IE4 is probably fine too :)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jim Philips <<a
href="mailto:philips_jim@bellsouth.net">philips_jim@bellsouth.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Friday 07 November
2008 08:27:09 <a href="mailto:krwatson@cc.gatech.edu">krwatson@cc.gatech.edu</a>
wrote:<br>
> Firefox hits 20 percent market share<br>
> <a
href="http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=106551&pagtype="
target="_blank">http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=106551&pagtype=</a><br>
>all<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5zlxbc" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/5zlxbc</a><br>
><br>
> keith<br>
><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The depressing thing is that about 40% of users have IE6. And the only
reason<br>
they have that browser is they never did any upgrades from the default in XP.<br>
To paraphrase PT Barnum:<br>
<br>
"Nobody ever went broke by overestimating the laziness of the American<br>
public."<br>
<br>
Or the world at large, for that matter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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