On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Steven Dale wrote: > > Back off bud, Pardon? > >> You might try asking a survey online.... > > I was responding to someone asking how to get usage stats for open source. And I was responding to the idea that an online survey might give you meaningful results. Not a hope in hell. > I, as a developer with some open source projects, know how proud of their > work they are. It was said in a helpful way and reflected no defamitory > remarks to those who use or develop open source applications. I never suggested otherwise. > > Neither can those many developers and users who, for example, take a > > path of least resistance by having Konqueror identify itself as MSIE. > > I know not why Konqueror takes that path and I dont wish to speculate on > that. To avoid being locked out by clueless websites that read a User-Agent string and tell you your browser is unsupported. That's an FAQ. -- Nick Kew Nick's manifesto: http://www.htmlhelp.com/~nick/Received on Friday, 16 April 2004 10:15:39 GMT
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