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Re:IE7 users, we need to talk… by mgkimsal on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:50PM (#7146767)
"Oracle support actually called me asking if they could redistribute my work to other customers!"

What did you tell them?

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Re:IE7 users, we need to talk… by acdha on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:14PM (#7147460)
Yes, given that I'd already released the code on a couple of customer lists but it was tempting to ask for a license fee, particularly given the arrogant first-line support we'd had to slog through to report the bug. “We don't do Microsoft's beta-testing for them. We'll start testing after IE8's released” – a week after the release
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Re:IE7 users, we need to talk… by mgkimsal on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:38PM (#7152858)
"We don't do Microsoft's beta-testing for them."

Wow... that really assumes a lot on their part to have that attitude. Like... MS will give a rat's ass about how some crappy Oracle app will work in their latest browsers. Or that anyone will take Oracle's response of "report this bug to MS" six months later as useful. But... this is probably the same attitude other big vendors have about Oracle's stuff too.

Wow...

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