[Gllug] Guardian says Firefox is rubbish

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/5 Jose Luis Martinez <jjllmmss at googlemail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:12 PM, michael norman <michaeltnorman at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>>> I'll post this here without much comment other than to suggest that as a
>>> Guardian reader for several decades it makes me think about buying the
>>> Independent
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/firefox.opera
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> Nice piece  of journalism: extrapolating personal preferences as set
>> in stone truisms about development philosophies.
>>
>> Those media studies schools are not doing their work properly ....
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> Actually part of me actually agrees (Without reading the article), the
> Latest version of Firefox (3.0) has serious flaws.


How can you possibly do that? I mean, agreeing with somebody without
knowing what they said ?!?! :-)

He puts forward some personal opinion about which browser is best (he
obviously likes Opera, nothing wrong with that) and then he goes in a
tirade about how this probes that closed source software is much
better than open source software, which is slimey journalism, to say
the least.

It is that to what I was making reference, the failings of each piece
of software are pretty much objective stuff (either it works or it
doesn't) and the preferences are a matter of personal opinion, what a
"journalist" can't do is name his personal preferences as a statement
of fact.


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