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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. For those who don't know.... by Atrax · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... it's in the other Fairfax paper too

    Identical article, but shows that the coverage is even bigger than you might initially expect if you weren't familiar with Fairfax.

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  2. Re:Kind of vague article by bobinabottle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Age is the second most popular metropolitan newspaper that is distributed in the second largest Australian city: Melbourne, Victoria.

    Whilst it is not as popular as the Herald Sun, the leading newspaper in Melbourne, it is regarded as the `more intelligent' paper whilst the Herald Sun is the tabloid equivalent.

    It would seem this doesn't account for much, but greater Melbourne has a population of over 4 million and afaik The Age is relatively well known internationally.