At a State Section townhall conducted by Chief Chief Executive, a employee asked reason Internet Explorer is mandated, even though Firefox is security-approved for the "intact information gathering residential area." The answer? A whole bunch of bullshit, especially the harebrained citing of "expense."
Internet Somebody isn't mandated in all polity section, and Firefox has been vetted and unwooded as good as secure as IE (duh), so it's a established question: Reason not use the faster, safer, statesman customizable and statesman trustworthy web browser? Chief Executive has no view reason Firefox is obstructed, which is totally fine with us—we really square measure well-chosen she's disbursal her time on early things.
But Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy chimes in that it's "an hurt question," at which point he is promptly and rightfully yelled down that Firefox is free, for god's rice beer. He goes into a bunch of falderol astir "patches" and how even things that square measure free aren't really free, which sounds to us like a feeble seek to vindicate gone his first answer—he probably didn't recognise Firefox was free when he cited hurt in the first place. If Firefox has already been unenforced in early sectors of system of rules, it stands to reasonableness that it could be adoptive by the State Section fairly easily and quickly, and with stripped expense.
The rest of some his and Chief Clinton's answer is mostly thick, metaphor-laden government-speak astir cutting reimbursement that, pitying guys, isn't achievement to make us bury that you good claimed a free and vastly superior program, unmatchable that's already in opened use in early sectors of system of rules, is too dearly-won to implement.
Pat President of the United States, you're officially on my bad side. [State Department via Switched]