Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable
[Ewwwww! I swore to myself I wouldn't get involved in this one ...]
Incoming from Paul Galbraith:
> Mike Ward wrote:
> >Hehe.. in all fairness, it's just because we hired some new guy who
> >now has the windows box I used to use for testing. Oh, and because I
> >think it'd be hilarious to run IE6 on Linux. Just... well, if you
> >don't see the humor in that, I'm not explaining it. :)
>
> I do see the humour, not to mention that unexplainable, yet real,
> satisfaction of having done something both useless and technologically
> cool...I feel the urge, too :-)
I can just see the CERT Advisory addendum: "It is safe to run IE, as
long as it's not run from within Microsoft Operating Systems Software
(Windows)"; the ultimate slap in the face for their "security model."
Too bad this wasn't around during the antitrust case.
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