By Fred Langa Courtesy of InformationWeek
For an industry built on logic--at their deepest level, computers are logic circuits--blatant illogic somehow manages to cloud many issues.
Take Firefox, for example, a very nice browser from Mozilla.org. It's free, open source, and the result of literally years of development. It's also a cross-platform application, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux--a huge plus in computationally diverse environments because the configuration and training/learning curve is basically the same, no matter what platform the browser's installed on. Its human language support also is extensive, with versions in everything from Afrikaans to Welsh. No question: It's impressive software.