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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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  1. Real by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep tryi.... *buffering*.... ng to read.... *buffering*.... the story...

  2. To compete, Opera has announced... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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.

  3. I want to cry, this just [buffering...] by pla · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:What's wrong with it? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish there was a link to the complaints.

    Ask and ye shall receive:

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/215 4250

    KFG

  5. If Slashdot were Wikipedia... by IANAAC · · Score: 4, Funny
    Stephen Colbert would be pointing to the groupthink mentality about now :-)

    Knee-jerk now, read the article later.

  6. Re:black cloud w/silver lining... by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    If you can read this sig, you're too close.