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Nokia Invested In Mozilla?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dial-m-for-money dept.

Pine UK writes "The Register, is reporting that Nokia has invested in the Mozilla Foundation. This news should come as a shock to Opera, who in recent times have had a very large market share in the area of portable device browsers. Opera has also been the browser choice for Nokia, who ship it with all their Symbian 'smartphones.' Nokia have not yet confirmed nor denied their investment in Mozilla."

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  1. Slashdot crisis! by Sanity · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh no! Mozilla versus Opera, on /. that is almost as bad as Galdalf versus Arthur Dent or Apple versus Linux!

    Expect to see large parts of the Internet go down as slashdotters everywhere spontaneously combust due to an inability to reconcile two opposing knee-jerk reactions.

    1. Re:Slashdot crisis! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Any day of the week except Thursdays, he's still getting the hang of them.

    2. Re:Slashdot crisis! by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Oh no! Mozilla versus Opera, on /. that is almost as bad as Galdalf versus Arthur Dent or Apple versus Linux!"

      What are you talking about? Arthur Dent would crush Gandalf with his, uhm, no, not with his logical skills. Maybe matching up Galdalf vs. Marvin the Paranoid Android would be a better cage match.

      And no Linux vendor makes as pretty of hardware as Apple, so there's no comparison. Maybe so after Alienware puts out a distribution...

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  2. Re:FUCK IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Girls are like Internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken.
    No no, you've got it all wrong. It's "Girls are like Internet domain names, the ones I like go for $9.95."
  3. Re:FUCK IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't know the rest of the quote, do you? (This is an IRC conversation, and the rest is a reply to the first part) It reads: "Well, you can still get one from a strange country..."

    Still, yours is pretty funny too.

    Now, if I could just not try to FP stuff, or at least remember to check post anon...

  4. Obligatory Sybian/Symbian confusion joke by Gothmolly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa, I thought for a minute that Nokia was adding special features to their smartphones. Makes the 'vibrate' ring setting take on a whole new meaning!

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  5. Re:Nokia's day has gone... by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Funny
    I gave up on Nokia's phones when they built in that connectivity thing that allows you to talk to someone else with them. I mean, what's the point? Why would you want to be able to talk to anyone? What a pointless gimmick!

    No, a phone should be a lump of plastic that fits in your pocket. Nothing more, nothing less.

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  6. Re:FUCK IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Take a bath and wear some deodorant
    You shouldn't give such advice without first trying it yourself.