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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft ActiveX the King of Bugs and Flaws

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft ActiveX the King of Bugs and Flaws
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:41:51 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Report: ActiveX, QuickTime are buggiest browser plug-ins

And in other news ... water is wet, and the pope is catholic :)

Seriously, ActiveX is probably the most infamously insecure and buggy
software component in the history of computing. It boggles the mind that
de Icaza could have become so enamoured by it.

-- 
K.
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