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Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the boom-snikt-snikt-boom dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Key, then, to the Drumbeat project is openness, specifically openness as applied to the Internet. That fits in well with the original impulses behind Mozilla and Firefox. The former was about transforming the Netscape Communicator code into an open source browser, and the latter was about defending open standards from Microsoft's attempt to lock people into Internet Explorer 6 and its proprietary approaches. Both Mozilla and Firefox have succeeded, but the threats have now changed."

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  1. bad writing. by mooingyak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Key, then, to writing summaries is quality sentences, specifically sentences that don't read like this one.

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    William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
  2. What to do after ? by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FTA:That's all well and good, but it raises the question: what should Mozilla be doing *after* it conquers the browser world – that is, once it has 50% market share?

    Easy, people should begin to explore other alternatives like Chrome, Safari and Opera. There should ALWAYS be choices because absolute power corrupts absolutely whether it's IE or Firefox. It's naive to make simple assertions like Microsoft = bad and Mozilla = good. Any organization that gets that kind of control eventually capitalizes on it. I know the article says "The threats have changed". How about "Mozilla's motivations will change?"

  3. Drumbeat? by Sporkinum · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what this drumbeat is, but I keep having a tap,tap,tap,,,tap in my head and it's driving me mad. Can you hear it?

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    "He's lost in a 'floyd hole"