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Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform

Posted by timothy on from the it-sure-works-for-me dept.

ceswiedler writes "Salon is running a story about Mozilla's potential dominance as a platform for application development. They discuss the community development centering around Mozilla, and point out that its cross-plaform GUI environment is 'exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming a platform.' In what might be a Salon first, they even include a reference to a Slashdot comment by SkyShadow."

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  1. OooO! by scaramush · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this is Salon's attempt to /. Slashdot for all the times Slashdot has hammered Salon? ;)

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    1. Re:OooO! by scaramush · · Score: 5, Funny
      Which site has the largest number of zombies reading the articles and clicking on all the links?

      Well, if you'd just said "which site has the largest number of zombies clicking on all the links", I'd would have to have given it to Slashdot.

      But when you throw in that tricky "reading" thing...

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  2. This reminds me of law of software envelopment by jukal · · Score: 5, Funny
    "But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a "platform" -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs"

    Law of Software Envelopment jwz edition
    ``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''

  3. Woo!!! by Skyshadow · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is where I do my little dance and feel special. Salon quotes me, *and* I get an article on the front page! Then I post this OT, worthless post and burn off my karma.

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