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Mozilla Partners with Real Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the need-a-realware-checker dept.

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. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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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