Comments on: Pimpin’ it. http://blogwaffe.com/2005/04/18/272/ Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational blog station Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:13:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MDA http://blogwaffe.com/2005/04/18/272/#comment-444 MDA Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:02:57 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2005/04/18/272/#comment-444 My point was not so much Firefox, as it was the choice of function name. But to answer your question, you've missed the point; none of the browsers you list are open source. It isn't about flaming. It isn't about destroying anything. It's about using and promoting a good piece of software whose values (if you will) are compatible and consistent with the values of the software you're developing. I'm sure someone will write a WordPress plugin that will remove the Firefox plug and add an Opera plug. But it will be silly; the plug is only ever seen behind closed doors in the admininstration interface. My point was not so much Firefox, as it was the choice of function name.

But to answer your question, you’ve missed the point; none of the browsers you list are open source. It isn’t about flaming. It isn’t about destroying anything. It’s about using and promoting a good piece of software whose values (if you will) are compatible and consistent with the values of the software you’re developing.

I’m sure someone will write a WordPress plugin that will remove the Firefox plug and add an Opera plug. But it will be silly; the plug is only ever seen behind closed doors in the admininstration interface.

]]> By: Adam http://blogwaffe.com/2005/04/18/272/#comment-443 Adam Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:43:02 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2005/04/18/272/#comment-443 Whenever an IE/Firefox (or Windows/Linux) flame war gets going, there are a bunch of Firefox (or Linux) people who say that it isn't about destroying Microsoft, but about providing people with options and making people aware that there *are* software options out there. So MDA, I ask you, where are the pimp_opera(), pimp_internet_explorer(), and pimp_safari() functions? Whenever an IE/Firefox (or Windows/Linux) flame war gets going, there are a bunch of Firefox (or Linux) people who say that it isn’t about destroying Microsoft, but about providing people with options and making people aware that there *are* software options out there.

So MDA, I ask you, where are the pimp_opera(), pimp_internet_explorer(), and pimp_safari() functions?

]]> By: MDA http://blogwaffe.com/2005/04/18/272/#comment-441 MDA Tue, 19 Apr 2005 03:00:09 +0000 http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000/2005/04/18/272/#comment-441 It also cleans up a wee bit of <a href="http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2005/01/wordpress-spyware" rel="nofollow">controversy</a>. It also cleans up a wee bit of controversy.

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