FSF liked my comments re: Copyright Office requiring use of I.E.
Comments delivered by the FSF to the Copyright Office
A sampling of the comments we received is included below, in no particular order.
[and my comment is there! :)]
To Whom It May Concern,
I am a user of Knoppix, a free software GNU/Linux distribution.
Internet Explorer is not available on this operating system. Firefox,
Mozilla, Epiphany and Konqueror are (among others).
I have been using the Internet since 1990, and programming code for
web broswers since 1994. I have never once written a single line of
code that was dependent on functionality exclusive to any one browser
(and don’t intend to).
There is no rational reason why the software you are choosing to
implement could not support at least Firefox, and really, it should be
completely agnostic as to the operating system and browser being used
- if a browser is compliant with a specified set of open and widely
agreed upon standards, then it should be acceptable to use that
browswer.
If this means your third party vendor has to exert some effort to
make their software more compatible, then they should be required to
do that… even better, you should be implementing free software
running on GNU/Linux, not commercial and proprietary code for which
you do not have access to the source or the legal right to modify and
change it as you see necessary.
Regards,
Thomas Leavitt
Santa Cruz, CA
P.S. and change your ridiculous requirements for submitting
comments… it is 2005, not 1955!