Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 07/25/06 15:59

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Andy Dingley wrote:

> M$' approach encourages ignorance and mis-use of the standard. How
> does that work out long-term?

You already know the answer. It means their customers have such a
huge legacy of garbage which absolutely *depends* on MS's wrong
behaviour that, even when they discover a critical security weakness,
they don't dare to fix its underlying cause. At best, they just paper
over the cracks of the immediate exploit, and hope that the next
exploit based on the same underlying weakness will take a while.

It's taken them at least 8 years to gingerly phase-in HTTP support
for text/plain, for heaven's sake. They still haven't managed it
for mail, though.

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