Why?
It makes me angry when somebody tells so much nonsense and insists in doing so for months and almost years.
With only one purpose: to defame the work of many programmers, many volunteers, who planned
- and accomplished - writing Mozilla, a completely free open source web browser
that is about as good or clearly superior (depends on what is important for
you) to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Mangelo claims all the time to always tell true facts and make "no factual mistakes".
While this may be true in general or not, the way how information is presented
is crucial:
Every young boy tells his after a brawl: "My brother hit me!" - and this might be true.
His brother, however, tells the same. Also true.
The point is: you have to listen to both sides of the story. Mangelo always
cries "He hit me!". Despite of claiming to be "unbiased" you easily see from
reading any two of this articles that his only aim is to defame Mozilla.
And if you read more articles you will soon realize that he even chooses
the subjects with only one thing in mind: "How can I exploit the weaknesses
and hurt mozilla most?"
So Mangelo picks only the facts that make Mozilla look bad. This is not only distortion of facts. In effect he tries to create a wrong image of Mozilla - and for me at least that is lying. Therefore the title of this site.
Do I have too much enough spare time? Surely not. But if there is a chance
of countering such massive misinformation, I happily spend some time...
Don't know if this could be considered a waste of time; probably he is not
worth it, because there are not many people influenced by Mangelo. But on
the other hand countering injustice is never bad. From now on a google search
for mozillaquest will not only list his stupidities, but also my information
about him.
Why like this?
MozillaQuestQuest takes a very funny approach and beats Mangelo
with its own weapons. While that is great, I also think that facts are not
bad. Not only make a fool of him, but also show that his arguments are invalid.
If someone thinks that this brings too much attention to him and his page:
It is just my decision to do so. I think the only ones that get to his page
from or because of my one (there is no link!) will know what his articles are about. Back to index (created: 03-Oct-2002, last modified: 03-Nov-2002)