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Proprietary browsers built on proprietary browsers: the blind leading the blind?
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| However my real rant is on the decision to base this piece of total rubbish
| on a proprietary offering in the first place. Forcing your customers to use
| one particular browser is bad enough, forcing them to use something like
| this is even worse. This browser is of course proprietary, if I could get
| to the code I could perhaps see the problem and suggest a fix. Iâm not
| entirely convinced the issue is solely the fault of the javascript. But I
| canât. I canât even contact the developers and explain the exact nature of
| the problem. Welcome to proprietary software. What bugs me the most is that
| â having been subjected to this kind of treatment again by proprietary
| software and its distributors â my friend has taken the opinion that âthis
| is how it isâ with software and computers. You get a problem, you ask
| someone, contact people, complain and â because your problem is nothing
| particularly big (in the developerâs eyes) you get little or no response.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/proprietary_browsers_built_proietary_browsers_blind_leading_blind
The Bizarre Cathedral - 52
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_52
Recent:
Kiddie Monitoring Software Spying On IM Chats, Selling Info To Marketers
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| But it appears that just selling the tools isn't enough for some
| companies.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090908/1916036134.shtml
Who watches the baby-sitter?
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| And, you thought Big Brother was just a character in George Orwell's
| 1984. Welcome to 2009, when, according to an AP news report by Deborah
| Yow. "Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read
| private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and
| send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies,
| music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses
| seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids."
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http://www.itworld.com/endpoint-security/76999/who-watches-baby-sitter
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