So I guess I must have been living under a rock for the past several years because I had no clue that GoDaddy offers free SSL certs to open-source projects. Good for you, GoDaddy! Intrigued by this, I looked around a bit more for some commentary on this offering.
I found this article on Linux.com where they discussed this move with GoDaddy president and founder Bob Parsons. He talks about how wonderful open source is, how much they use it at GoDaddy, and how they wanted to give something back to the open source community. He says these licenses are renewable for free each year as long as the project remains open-source.
So I’m liking what I’m reading, and follow a link to his personal blog entry from February 2005. More gushing about the benefits of open source, and how a side benefit of open source is that it “keeps Microsoft sharp”. He refers to Firefox as an “up and coming browser” that has Microsoft worried. True enough.
And then comes the next paragraph: “I personally prefer Microsoft’s Internet Explorer”, he says. “The reason I use Internet Explorer is because I’ve become used to it”. OK, fair enough… lots of people have somehow grown “used to” IE. I believe it’s referred to as Stockholm Syndrome.
But then he drops the bombshell: “I also think it’s a fine piece of engineering that only keeps getting better”. A fine piece of engineering, he says. Keeps getting better, he says. OK, I may even be kind enough to grant that he isn’t at all technically qualified to comment on what type of engineering went into IE.
But “keeps getting better“?! He said this in 2005, after IE6 had been out for almost four years without a single update! IE7 was still a year and a half away, and was still to be made available only in Vista! Keeps getting better, Bob? KEEPS GETTING BETTER?!!
Sorry, Bob. That good will that I had almost built up for you over the past five minutes is now gone. Hope you’re still enjoying IE, Bob. It’s actually released a new version in the four years since you wrote that post. I’ve heard it even has tabs now.
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