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gregschlom on May 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE

> There's also the ethos you buy into by supporting IE: you're supporting a closed source, proprietary internet.

By your reasoning, nobody would write an iPhone app either, or anything targeted for a platform other than GNU/Linux.

pippy on May 9, 2012 [–]

That point was very weak, I have to admit. I guess a better way of putting will be you're supporting an open internet by supporting open browsers. Not the other way around.

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