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["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Eberhard 
> Roloff wrote:
>> O. Sinclair schrieb:
>>
>>> I use it myself occasionally when some pay-for-internet site is 
>>> created by some brainless git so that it does not work outside IE.
>>>
>>
>> And this exactly is the reason why this brainless git can continue to 
>> do his brainless work.
>>
>> They will want to have happy customers.
>>
>> So, just let them know that you would like to buy from them, but you 
>> can't, since you are using Linux.
>>
>> Then go and buy elsewhere, if they do not agree with you.
>> And do not forget to let them know.
>>
> Sort of difficult when you sit at an airport and want to hook up to 
> internet but I get your point
>

No, it's not difficult.  Hooking up to the Internet simply requires a 
TCP/IP stack (installed by default).  It does not require CraptiveX in 
any way, shape, or form.  If a Web site does require CraptiveX, then 
that's one Web site that I simply don't visit again.

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