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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Blaming the User is Rude: 'If you try, using an "unsupported" browser or operating system, to visit the Yahoo! Companion web site [...] you're greeted with a rude message [...] The blame is on the user. "Your current browser doesn't support..." should be turned around: "Yahoo! Companion doesn't currently support your browser." Why? Because it's the truth. It's not my browser's fault at all, it's Yahoo's.' [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
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Microsoft against the European Union revisited -- Comment()
Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union?: "European Commission is in the process of fining Microsoft 497 million Euros ($613 million). The most important reason for the fine was the refusal by Microsoft to share more information about its products with competitors." This reminds me of the story The Last Rebel Coders: "In the beginning of the 21st century Microsoft had difficulties in fighting open source development, which spread like cancer. In the year 2003 negotiations to open the European Union to Microsoft products run into a dead end." Originally I wrote this story in 2001 as a column for a Finnish IT magazine, and later translated the text into English. Perhaps I was right and there will be a fight between USA and Europe?
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