[ale] Firefox hits 20 percent market share

[Jeff Lightner]

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too out of date or if it's too new".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.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Jerry Yu
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 10:32 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Firefox hits 20 percent market share

 

it may be not 'lazy', but simply following a good operation mantra, "If
it ain't break, don't fix it". 
In many's eyes, IE4 is probably fine too :)

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jim Philips <philips_jim at bellsouth.net>
wrote:

On Friday 07 November 2008 08:27:09 krwatson at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> Firefox hits 20 percent market share
>
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=106551&pagty
pe=
>all
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5zlxbc
>
> keith
>

The depressing thing is that about 40% of users have IE6. And the only
reason
they have that browser is they never did any upgrades from the default
in XP.
To paraphrase PT Barnum:

"Nobody ever went broke by overestimating the laziness of the American
public."

Or the world at large, for that matter.



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