A lot of those internal apps hang by a thread with regard to cross-compatibility. Many large companies still live in IE6 land where change occurs on a geologic

A lot of those internal apps hang by a thread with regard to cross-compatibility. Many large companies still live in IE6 land where change occurs on a geologic scale, and what's more that's sort of the way they want it. As much as businesses like to bitch about IT costs the fact is that, for what they pay, most of them get a quite a lot of utility out of their poorly-budgeted and mismanaged IT departments. Even their talented developers are so overworked and underpaid and mismanaged that they churn out mostly garbage, but it's usually garbage that gets the job done right then. Anything more than that is always viewed as a luxury anyway, until you can't upgrade anymore because 10% of the internal apps misperform running under a newer JS implementation. Nevertheless, the business sees something better and thinks they might need it but they first have to wake up to the fact that OSS != free shit, and they don't like that at all. "What happens if they EOL FF5?" Well, you have the source, fix the problem yourself, that's how it works. You're a big organization, you got this amazing tool for absolutely nothing, give something back. If you can't accept those terms, fuck off back to IE land. So Dotzler is absolutely right. There is no way his organization can please enterprise as they have impossible demands, so fuck them.