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Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers
Rob writes with a link to a Computer Business Review article on the negative impact Mozilla COO John Lilly sees Apple is having on Open Source. Lilly claims that Jobs' recent discussion of Safari on Windows is an attempt to create a duopoly of browsers (IE and Safari), with Firefox and the rest on the outside looking in. "The graph 'betrays the way that Apple, so often looks at the world,' Lilly said. 'But make no mistake: this wasn't a careless presentation, or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing trick,' he said. 'Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but 'careless' and 'accidental' do not. This is, essentially, the way they're thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want to pick up.'" We discussed an analyst's opinion on this subject this past Friday.
You meant inferior, but I'll forgive you since I know you're using a mac and the keyboard has all the keys in funny places.
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Apple's introducing a superior browser to Windows
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
We're on a Safari and we're hunting OSS browsers. (slaps self) I mean we're developing Safari and HURTING OSS browsers.
Presumably when another user is running a copy.
Game... blouses.
I share it with my girlfriend and what does she do? Kills my iTunes and then uses hers to play Elton John and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.
It's a fucking travesty is what that is.
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Then uses hers to play Elton John and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack
Damn. I knew Slashdotters were hard up for female companionship, but this is over the top. Why don't you just stick to porn and wanking like the rest of us?
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I've got a nastly little anarchist streak in me. I think it'd be hilarious for the browser wars to play out like this. Download Windows update? IE takes control. Song off iTunes? Safari grabs control back.
Knock down drag out no holds barred browser war, np.
Why don't you just stick to porn and wanking like the rest of us?
Because it's not as fun and a lil Elton John and Moulin Rouge is worth having access to a sex partner?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.