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We don't fear it,
but we do hate it.

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We are a group of dedicated hackers (what is a hacker?) in love with Linux and the Open Source world. More or less, each of us tries to advocate open source and contribute code, ideas, feedback and technical support. Many of us are actively maintaining different, successful open source projects and/or mirrors of them in Romania. Among us you can find talented programmers and system administrators.

N0i.Net ('0' is zero) is our base network. We can be find on different channels at irc.n0i.net (or rdsis.n0i.net, dntis.n0i.net, tuiasi.n0i.net—all of them being part of the same IRC network).

This page is not a result of our habit to advocate open source. This page is a result of the mediocrity that Microsoft puts into all the world. It's a result of hundreds of hours of frustrating dancing around IE bugs. As developers, we effectively felt this very thing over and over: IE is buggy not because of human mistakes—human they are, but not mistakes. IE is buggy because this was the development plan. But the notion of “bug” is actually very relative: some people may think that other browsers are buggy because they don't share IE's differences from Web standards.

When we say bug, we mean peculiar, sometimes very subtle, differences from what Web standards specify, and most of the times they are so well designed that lead to products which only work with Internet Explorer. This is not a mistake and not an accident; it's calculated. Microsoft uses the popularity of IE in order to dismiss Web standards. Microsoft does not like open standards, because open standards encourage competition. Microsoft does not like competition.

Quit using it!