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68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the british-insight dept.

An anonymous reader writes "mozillaZine is reporting that over two-thirds of British universities and colleges have installed Mozilla or Firefox on their campus computers. They cite an open source survey by OSS Watch that also shows rising support for Mozilla Thunderbird, Moodle and Octave, though a decline for OpenOffice and LaTeX. Predictably, all open source offerings are blown away by Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office's 100% deployment rates."

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  1. Re:What's the big deal...? by Anon-Admin · · Score: 2, Funny

    IE7 is standards compliant; It even improves on the standards with all new features!
    It is free for Windows, everyone runs windows.
    It is safe, provided you run the anti-spy ware, anti-virus, anti-add ware, and a good firewall.

    See IE7 can touch it and improve on it!

    Man I am glad I run Linux!

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news... widespread use of communist software leads students to piracy, joblessness, and anti-Americanism.

  3. Re:ie modzilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    lol man dont u now, its because ff has added so much security, it supports 8092bit sll-encryptation for all sites and even colors teh adress-box to make it even more secure. u can even run ff on Lunix, which is even more secure, since Lunix users are basement-dwelling faggots who dont have anything to steal so theres no viruses for teh Lunix-kernal.

  4. Remaining tech chic by Lance_Denmark · · Score: 2, Funny

    What?! Firefox is becoming popular? Oh man now I am going to have to use Opera in order to sneer down my superior nose at what browser people are using.

  5. Re:disappointing numbers by LindseyJ · · Score: 4, Funny
    We defiantly have a long way to go to catch up to their European counterparts.

    Indeed...
  6. Omgili is your firend. by MarkusQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seriously, when you see a word like "Moodle" that you don't know, why don't you just Omgili for it?

    --MarkusQ

  7. That does it. by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am going to create a search engine called glappershnoodlifrica, which will index only projects with utterly stupid names.

    --
    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  8. Re:Say what you will about Microsoft, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    He is expressing a strong feeling by over-exaggerating his statement with a mathematical function. This rhetorical technique is known as hyperbola.