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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. Re:OooO! by kasperd · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Salon's attempt to /. Slashdot

    Which site has the largest number of zombies reading the articles and clicking on all the links?

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  2. Re:This reminds me of law of software envelopment by Uruk · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can

    Yep, that's one of those quasi-funny computer "laws" that actually has a very disheartening core of truth to it. Of course some programs such as emacs expanded until they could read mail and then kept going :) I think the ultimate stopping point of development on emacs is going to be when the emacs hackers sit down to make improvements in the program, and the program ends up responding, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave"

    Here's another one of those informal computer laws that's ha-ha funny...but serious:

    Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:
    "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

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