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."

Comments

Is Firefox really more secure than IE

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone touts Firefox being more secure than IE, but is it really? After reaching a critial mass it will be a target for malware writer and the larger the install base the more bugs that will be found. I wonder if Firefox is really any better than IE (which I consider to be a superior product) when it becomes mainstream.

Of course they liked it...

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[begin thick Australian accent]
Firefox, Australian for beer.
[end accent]

Maybe they were confused?

Re:For those who don't know....

[NMEismyNME]

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

It's spelled firefox