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Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward
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."
...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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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...
Tluin natha Linux xxizzuss uriu olt bwael mon'tun.
"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".
The Internet is generally stupid
"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?
No. Active. X.
If you think that's three words, I got news for ya - X is a letter buddy.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Wow. Slashdot forums in article form. Scary. :::shudders:::