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The article is generally correct. Until 2010, all e-commerce had to use the SEED protocol (which is only implemented via an ActiveX control after Netscape fell)
by corresation 13y ago
The article is generally correct. Until 2010, all e-commerce had to use the SEED protocol (which is only implemented via an ActiveX control after Netscape fell), by law. Which means Internet Explorer.
Yes, it originated in the days when SSL was 40-bits, and yes there was once a Netscape plugin. However the world changed, and for the next decade the law remained the same. The spirit of the article is absolutely correct, despite minor discrepencies: Long after far superior alternatives were available, the law mandated the use of Internet Explorer, which is an inertia that carries the country today.
- ksk 13y ago>Long after far superior alternatives were available, the law mandated the use of Internet Explorer, which is an inertia that carries the country today. The law does not mandate IE. The government would have maintained both plugins if people would have continued to use netscape. They didn't.
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- beagle3 13y agoBy not developing such a plugin for firefox and chrome (which now account for much, much more than IE everywhere else in the world), they are, effectively, mandating IE. How is the situation today any different than if Netscape never existed? It is really important to look through the dry definitions. e.g., the super rich -- like the super poor -- are forbidden from panhandling. But effectively, it's a law that only applies to the poor; The wording does not matter.
- ksk 13y agoBut you're looking at it globally which has no bearing in Korea. Locally ofcource its a chicken and egg problem. IMO they should just opensource their technology.