Free at Last
This rant isn't about silver at all; we figure once or twice a year we're entitled to a tirade of a different color (although in a strange way this one is connected to silver, too, because silver bulls by their very definition are a contrary lot). It has instead to do with our love-hate relationship with the personal computer, which is chock full of silver, gold, lead, rhodium, indium and other delightful metals, and our liberation from a software monopoly.
We have no particular bone to pick with Microsoft, except that we have fed the Redmond, Washington maw for years going back to Windows 2.0 and MS-DOS on our first new real desktop machine, an IBM clone with the Intel 80286 chip.
It started with a nasty-gram from a guy who could not read our website, which was written for Internet Explorer, with Firefox. What, we wrote back, was Firefox and who cared?
A browser is a browser, we figured. Oh, No, he said, this one's better, and it's free. We tried Firefox and we liked it. None of the Internet Explorer bugs, more features, blocks the pop-ups, gives you tabbed browsing, faster running. This was two years ago. Internet Explorer is still catching up, still buggy, still virus-vulnerable, still a memory hog. Meantime Firefox has learned how to read websites built with Macromedia and to run all that Java-script stuff. Without bugs and viruses. We installed Firefox on our Windows machine and have never looked back.
Then a geek friend of ours turned us on to something called Open Office.
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