Mozilla Foundation Seeking Switch Success Stories

maggeth writes "mozillaZine has a story about how the Mozilla Foundation is looking to know if any organizations have switched to Mozilla products. Is your organization among them?" Can anyone point out an example of a library system switching? Lots of public libraries use PCs set up as kiosks running a web interface to their catalogs, and they all seem to use IE -- so, no tabbed browsing.

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Re:Exactly: Arcane processes equal frustrated user

[thinkninja]

I too roll my eyes when I hear Microsoft apologists claim "...Windows and IE as the easiest way to get something done and (somewhat reliably) working." This is flat out wrong.

OSX is the easiest way for 'average users' to perform any 'average' task. Period.

If these 'average users' want a superior solution then they must pay for it either with cash (Apple) or their time (GNU/Linux). Neither of these alternatives have a real incentive to compete with Microsoft on price. Apple aren't going to be selling budget $200 Macs anytime soon; FOSS developers won't be making hand holding wizards instead of man pages.

However, other parties (SuSE, Mandrake, Lin(dows|spire|dash), etc.) are trying to compete with Microsoft on price and ease of use. Whether or not they are ultimately successful remains to be seen but any competition to Microsoft's monopoly is a good thing for the consumer.