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Date: Fri Jul 14 20:06:59 2006
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: 70 million computers are
	using	Windows	98rightnow

Castigliola, Angelo wrote:

>
>What you missed in my previous note is that I am simply not referring to
>only websites but web applications also, specificity .NET web
>applications. When I refer to feature rich I am speaking of things such
>as view state, output caching, client-side validation, etc...
>
>  
>
No, I understood it quite well.  What you missed is that the target 
audience for the suggested use of Free Software solutions in those cases 
are not those using specialized applications.

IE is not "feature rich", you're talking about highly specialized custom 
applications -- which is predominantly what .Net is used for -- and 
poorly, I might add, more often than not.   The example is no different 
than using, say, a Java add-on in Firefox.  Should we then say that 
Firefox is itself feature rich because it supports Java?  Clearly, you'd 
disagree... but then, you don't seem to know the difference between the 
.Net framework and IE so your opinion is somewhat questionable.

Sounds to me like you're a .Net programmer who isn't happy that his 
favorite toy relies on a piece of crap application to be pushed over the 
web.  Welcome to the real world, son.  Those who are serious about 
security and technology do not let arbitrary business decisions lead 
them around by the nose.

          -bkfsec