Breakdown in journalistic standards apology

Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director say's he does not believe IE's market share is under attack following the recent high-profile debut of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser. According to Vamos "A browser is a browser is a browser mate - I don't agree that just because a (competing) product has a feature that we don't have, that feature is important, if it was, we would have it mate"

Vamos, who admitted he has never used Firefox, said "there is a lot of hype surrounding the open-source movement" and that "if Microsoft's customers wanted new features, they would have fucking told the company about it, mate"

IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT BY FALSELY ATTRIBUTING "HUMOROUS"AND DEROGATORY REMARKS TO MR STEVE VAMOS I AM IN BREACH OF "THE AGREEMENT" AND IT IS LIKELY THAT REVOCATION OF MY MEMBERSHIP MAY TAKE PLACE. I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF MAKING IT CLEAR TO ALL CONCERNED THAT THE ABOVE ITEMS IN RED WERE , IN ERROR, ATTRIBUTED TO MR STEVE VAMOS. THIS WAS A BREAKDOWN IN JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS AND IS AGAINST THAT SPIRIT Of FAIR PLAY AND FIDELITY THAT WE HOLD TRUE. CLEARLY, WHEN RED ITEMS ARE REMOVED, HE LOSES ALL CREDIBILITY.