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Mozilla Partners with Real Networks
engineer_uhg writes to tell us that Mozilla has just entered into a multi-year agreement with Real Networks to have Firefox distributed with downloads of RealPlayer, Rhapsody, and RealArcade. The Mozilla team cited Real's estimated 2 million downloads per day as a great tool for distribution. However, many Firefox supporters question the move, complaining of questionable practices by Real.
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...a partnership with the government of Nigeria.
Opera will tout itself as a new standard as the preferred Acid 2 compliant browser of 419 scammers.
Mozilla has just entered into a multi-year agreement with Real Networks
Look, if you plan to sell your soul, at least sell it to the devil himself, not just any ol' schmuck in goat leggings.
Like Billy G - Now he might have given you fame, power, glory, girls (hey, look at Melinda!). But no - Instead, you gave your soul to a guy named Phil who smokes too much and ends every sentence with "Trust me!".
In five years, when you all look back and wonder how you went from posing a serious threat to MSIE, to posing a sort-of-maybe threat to Opera - Remember this day.
So this changes nothing for users of FF, but might be good for Real users who clearly deserve to be expunged from the gene pool by virtue of having willfully downloaded the #1 rated crapware on teh interwebs.
At least maybe, maybe they'll use FF instead of IE, which is good at least until IE7 is generally available.
[1] I hope to hell that assumption is correct.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
I wish there was a link to the complaints.
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Ask and ye shall receive:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/21
KFG
Agreed. And if Mozilla wants to cozy up with bloated POS software then Why don't they go the whole hog and bundle it with vista?
Knee-jerk now, read the article later.
If memory serves, this technique worked really well for Netscape.
They may get more people downloading their browsers, but Firefox's core market has always been geeks.
What? I stopped using Firefox as soon as I saw it mentioned in the major media. Then I started using K-Meleon, until I found out that uber-geeks use Lynx. Or so I thought. Real geeks stopped using the Internet altogether in the early '90s when it started to get so commercial. Now I just sit in my (parents') basement and play Tennis for Two my oscilloscope all day. I'm so l33t.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
This is totally a great business move on Mozi
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sentences between the subject header and the message body. Way to communicate effectively!
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
It could be worse ... they could bundle with adobe flash.