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Inquirer Blasts Mozilla for Microsoft-Style Bashing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

DoubleWhopper writes "An article over at The Inquirer blasts Mozilla and "lead Firefox engineer" Ben Goodger for resorting to Microsoft-style bashing of Netscape for their recent flawed release. After posting excerpts if scathing comments from readers of Goodger's own blog, the author comments, "I wonder why should companies contribute or fund the Mozilla Foundation, if any derivative work or redistribution of the Foundation's browsers they create is going to raise the FUD mocking and anger of Mozilla's 'lead engineer'". This after Christopher Aillon's (of RedHat) reaction last week."

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  1. bah. by t0ny747 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Firefox may have a few flaws but its still better then IE which never gets fixed.

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    Taco?
  2. Re:Double standards.kfynzdx by Skye16 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't a "news" source supposed to do the bashing? That's kind of their job. But it IS bad form for a company to rip on their competitors. It gets really old, trite, and pathetic, really fast. If you can't let YOUR product do the speaking for you, then maybe you should shut your mouth and get to work on making it better. And if it is better, then you, as a developer, don't need to say a word. Your actions have spoken much louder than your pie hole ever could.

  3. Re:We tried it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yay for cut/paste trolls.

    Now if only we could cut/paste this guy's genitals to his forehead.