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Firefox Community, Sickly Out of Control
darlingbuddy writes "After users started reporting Firefox's 150 million+ downloads, this article mentions why it's a bad move on the community's part. The author writes, "I'm proud of the community that pitched in enough donations for Firefox to get a full-page advertisement in The New York Times print edition, and I'm delighted to see them think of creative ideas for promotion, but reporting total downloads every so often and immaturely degrading Internet Explorer is ridiculous. The thing with these numbers is that they are misleading at best, and the only thing they accomplish is immature fanboyism. It's a fact that Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox with its extensive collection of extensions and ability to support qualified web standards, but does the community need to resort to using third-class promotional tactics with total downloads number?"
So, Taco-breath, when are we going to be able to moderate articles? Because surely this one deserves to be rated -1, Troll.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
And of course, there are people like me who downloaded it about 10 times at work, but ended up not using any of the copies because the lack of ActiveX makes it pretty much useless for us. The 150M downloaded means just that... it was downloaded 150 million times. There's NO POSSIBLE WAY to get even close to estimating the number of users with that statistic. So there. You're both trolls.
I don't respond to AC's.
Jeeze - who the hell is modding /. these days? An infinate number of jabbering monkeys who could't comprehend humor, the nuances of language, or irony - even if their hairy little assholes depended on it?
Shame on you all!