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No one legitimate is going to do this because of the legal risks. No one illegitimate is going to do this because it's probably not as profitable as building a
by swolchok 17y ago
No one legitimate is going to do this because of the legal risks. No one illegitimate is going to do this because it's probably not as profitable as building a botnet.
- camccann 17y agoAlas, it seems that the intersection of "brilliant coders", "criminals", and "philanthropists" is a vanishingly small set.
- scotty79 17y agoDo you imply that people who ignore some laws do things only for profit?
- pwmanagerdied 17y agoNo, he didn't.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoNope... Google might pay companies like dell and hp to sneak this baby into pre-installations. Woo. And I am sure there will be a google javascript thingy which detects IE and gives you a message about download this and supporting pages will magically run soooo much faster and look sooo much more awesome.
- dagw 17y agoThat's only half the problem. The other part of the problem are the large number of companies that force their employees to use IE6 (or if they're lucky IE7), combined with the large number of in house web apps that only work with those browsers.
- snprbob86 17y agoYou can't convince admins to install IE7 if it breaks IE6 pages, but you can convince them to install Flash. This is an opt-in plug-in on the server side. It seems like there would be far less opposition to installing this by admins if Google packages and markets it correctly.