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Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward

Posted by timothy on from the but-that's-just-the-wine-talking dept.

lamasquerade writes "A major Australian newspaper has a lengthy and detailed feature on open source/standards, avoiding vendor lock-in, and specifically the increasing uptake of Firefox by major organisations' IT departments. It touches on security and price advantages of open source but mainly focuses on open standards -- the perils of vendor lock-in, and their importance to technologies like the Internet and digital music. Linux, OpenOffice.org and even Bugzilla get a mention and all told it is a very pro-open source/standards article, especially considering it is in a mass-circulation publication."

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  1. 1998 called.... by syousef · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and wants its article back.

    Substitute Firefox with Mozilla, and throw in a reference to The Cathedral and the Bazaar while you're at it.

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    1. Re:1998 called.... by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 1, Funny

      Motherfucker, this is how we roll!

  2. Henh. by Matilda+the+Hun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course major organizations use Firefox. A lot of the filtering software (i.e, Bess) only works on Internet Explorer (or whatever default browser they have). And if they can't play Solitare anymore, they have to do something...

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  3. Kind of vague article by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Which Australian paper did you say it was in?"

    "A major one"

    "Yeah, but which one?"

    "A mass-circulation publication"

    "Seriously, which one?"

    "It has an article about open source!"

    "I see".

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  4. This is a public service announcement by MochaMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    To save everyone the pain of having to read this cliche five times under every article, I am pre-emptively posting the formula here. From now on, rather than posting it, please simply read this, filling in the template with the appropriate year and item, and keep it to yourself; we'll all be better off that way:

    "YYYY called and it wants it's _____ back!"

    Thank you for your attention.

    1. Re:This is a public service announcement by GeorgeMcBay · · Score: 5, Funny


      "YYYY called and it wants it's _____ back!"

      Your formula is going to fail when year 10000 rolls around. And won't you feel stupid for your shortsightedness then?

    2. Re:This is a public service announcement by Bullet-Dodger · · Score: 2, Funny
      The word is its. He wrote it correctly, why did you have to insert an error?

      Its fun!

    3. Re:This is a public service announcement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      9 millenia ought to be enough for anybody

  5. Two words by SuperKendall · · Score: 3, Funny

    No. Active. X.

    If you think that's three words, I got news for ya - X is a letter buddy.

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  6. Uhhhhh by fishmasta · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. Slashdot forums in article form. Scary. :::shudders:::

  7. Re:For those who don't know.... by G-funk · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's not the violence (BRING BACK THE BIFF!), but the low-down hits, the finger in the ass, and stuff like that.

    Wow, this is so gibberish to any none aussies out there :)

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