Re: [OT] Call to arms...so to speak

[Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>]

John wrote:
> Bottom line is that I was told today that most people online today use 
> IE. I just wonder how they would react if a even a portion of the Debian 
> community contacted them, then refused to sign up because IE was the 
> only option.

Well,
starting from Jul 2004, following the well known string of IE related 
security incidents, the share of IE users has shrinked frm the previous 
9% or so.

The best estimates nowadays bring gecko based browsers somewhere around 
25% at least and I would bet that that will go up until MS does 
something a bit more radical than patching IE6 :)

So those guys are losing a potential 25% of their customer base.

Should they care ? If they have competition they sure would.

This is a sign of stupidly incompetent web coders ...

Bob