RE: [MACCAWS] incredible article on business case for standards

"Char James-Tanny" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
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> This is a great article, and I can see some of our research writing
> taking this approach and style. I think our people will point out
> some flaws which we need to address better too. One flaw is his
> reasons why users don't upgrade, which he stated as:
>
> They don't know how.
> They don't know they should.
> They don't want to.
>
> He needs to add #4
>
> They aren't allowed to.

And I would add #5: They can't, depending on their operating system. For
Solaris, HP/UX, and AIX, Netscape 6.x is not available and Mozilla is only
kind of available. (something about the network administrator having to jump
through hoops to get Mozilla installed...)

> But all in all, wonderful. And he presents GOOD case studies. I'd
> love if the research team could contact him and see if we could at
> least use the cases, and possibly use his article if they see fit.
>
> Char?

I'll put it on my to-do list :-)

Char
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