> Chrome and Firefox now how have rolling releases and are closely tied with the developer community, so new features and rendering uniformity is what you gain.

Because they employ more evangelists? The IE team has spent a tremendous amount of resources informing developers about IE 9 and 10. Many of us just don't bother paying attention to them.

> There's also the ethos you buy into by supporting IE: you're supporting a closed source, proprietary internet.

The irony here is that you're supporting a closed Internet by ignoring browsers. What a wonderful luxury that is.