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Mozilla's Year In Review For 2003
An anonymous reader writes "Like last year, MozillaZine has published a review of Mozilla's world in 2003. Obviously, the year was dominated by AOL's decision to murder Netscape (though various acts of 'brand necrophilia' will ensure that the Netscape name lives on in one form or another). This, combined with Mozilla Firebird's and Mozilla Thunderbird's steady progress towards replacing the Mozilla suite, made 2003 very much a transitional year for the open source project. Other memories to tell your grandchildren include mozilla.org's fifth birthday, the new roadmap, the Firebird name debate and a new chapter being added to The Book of Mozilla."
Mozilla is as dead as dinosaurs. Get over it.
GNAA / Google confirms: Linux is dying.
By GNAA Staff
Here you have it: it's official; Google confirms: Desktop Linux is dying.
Now, you might be thinking this is just another cut & paste troll based on the typical *BSD is dying bullshit.
It isn't.
As you might have know, your favorite search engine, Google, has been running a little statistics service, called "Zeitgeist".
Since about a year ago, they started providing statistics of the operating systems used to access their search engine worldwide.
I will let the numbers speak for themselves:
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in March 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in April 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in May 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in June 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in July 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in August 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in September 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in December 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in February 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in April 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in May 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in June 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in July 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in August 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in September 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2003
If you've looked at even a few of these links, you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Desktop Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Desktop Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on Desktop because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux on Desktop. As many of us are already aware, Linux on Desktop continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. Netscape 5.x
Given the amount of energy that went into the naming debate... no wonder there is slow progress...
With IE and Opera... why another browser? Seems like a waste of time. It's not even any good.
Free software is the biggest mistake in the history of computing. It will kill the industry, at least for a while...
Mozilla is disappointing. A thread in their support forum complained about the download file window has two buttons - cancel and suspend. Trouble is cancel doesn't cancel the window, it cancels the entire file. no resume capability. Ok; so lets rename it 'close' or 'cancel file'. Obstinate Mozilla Tech Support flips everyone the finger. Who do they think they are? Microsoft? Same with page download; takes soooo bloody long its ridiculous, freezing up the whole app. You've got the files? Why do you have to get them again. Yet Microsoft Explorer sucks. Opera didn't seem any better than Mozila, and has those frigging ads. Woe.
Depending on your source, the amount of potential customers lost can be far less than 10% (more like 6% tops). Also, the target audience for a bank isnt some computer geek who uses linux and doesnt use a shower. Its some yuppie who gets his shit from Dell and drives a BMW, and couldnt give two shits about Linux, unless he works for IBM, in which case he only cares about it enought to laugh at all the suckers giving him their work for free.
The majority of people dont seek to define themselves through their choice in web browsers.
I simply don't want this choice to be taken away from me, because I think this would hamper the technological evolution of the web.
Get a grip. Its just a means of displaying information on a page, its not a revolution in free thinking.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.