When I say 'pirate' I'm not just referring to people who eat, sleep and breath software piracy. If you install a piece of software knowing you're violating the licensing agreement or terms of service, you're a pirate. Your motivation is meaningless.
"How many of your relatives know what Linux is? How many of them know what Windows is?"
You have to remember to whom you're speaking to. This is Slashdot. Half these dorks probably come over to their relatives for Thanksgiving dinner in penguin costumes handing out free OSS CDs.
The people who install the leaked version are software pirates. Pirates don't typically make software companies a lot of money. By leaking a product people want to people who never would have made you money in the first place, you get people talking about it. Seems like a great strategy for MS or any other software company for that matter.
I think you've missed the point. Firefox (and it's users) began no with a claim of a faster response to security issues, but rather to a superior security architecture which was less conducive to the remotely exploitable vulnerabilities IE has fallen victom to. Clearly they were wrong and now all they have to hang on to is their response time, which they push every second they can.
I *LOVE* how Firefox users have changed their tune in recent months. It's no longer "Firefox is more secure than IE!" and has no become "It's now about which is more secure, it's about response times!".:) It makes me smile every time.
This is Slashdot. If some completely clueless 11 yr old blog writer can make headlines by doing an ROI comparison of Windows and Linux (which favors Linux) then why wouldn't this?
If you've read any of his previous works, you'd realize that for every positive impact of these technologies there are 500 negative impacts.
I remember in The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurtzweil spoke of nanotechnology being able to replace or complement neurons in the brain to create the ultimate in 'virtual reality'. Sure, it could be fantastic, create your own reality at the click of a button. Complete with smells, touches, tastes... your limit is only that of your imagination. Amazing! But then you start to think about addiction... I mean, this basically means you can create a world where all your deepest desires are realized... why would you want to leave a place like that? You wouldn't.
There have been free PDF creators for at least 9 years, but Apple just introduced native conversion support woth OSX, now that's all I use.
Anyways, have fun fighting your little war. I'm sure making business decisions based on religious bias is doing wonders for your company.
Sure, but the point is that Firefox growth is slowing... not that their userbase is increasing. If the percentages remain the same it's likely that IEs userbase increased to 100,000% as well.
Also, when you consider the type of users which make up the vast majority of Firefox supports (not just those who installed it once but those who use it), I think you'd find that they aren't *new* web users. It's safe to say that at this stage in the game, new web users are probably not savy enough to prioritize browser security high enough to find and use an alternative web browser.
You're missing the point. Popularity doesn't exactly equate to 'enterprise class'. Look at nmap, everyone knows and uses it. Is it enterprise class? No. Enterprise class means it's designed to be deployed across an entire enterprise/organization with centralized management, out of the box.
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Where is that documented?
Don't you have to download Firefox every time you want to upgrade/patch?
This is nothing more than an advertisement.
Maybe for that day, yes.
Thanks but, when I'm looking to travel back in time, I'll buy a Delorean.
of what you get with most OSS projects. Technology that's about 3-4 years behind Microsoft.
Yes, I refer to them as the 'Good old days'. The days when I'd spend my time downloading at 300bps and reading Cybercrime International.
Such has been the case since Windows 95. It's still piracy.
When I say 'pirate' I'm not just referring to people who eat, sleep and breath software piracy. If you install a piece of software knowing you're violating the licensing agreement or terms of service, you're a pirate. Your motivation is meaningless.
"How many of your relatives know what Linux is? How many of them know what Windows is?" You have to remember to whom you're speaking to. This is Slashdot. Half these dorks probably come over to their relatives for Thanksgiving dinner in penguin costumes handing out free OSS CDs.
The people who install the leaked version are software pirates. Pirates don't typically make software companies a lot of money. By leaking a product people want to people who never would have made you money in the first place, you get people talking about it. Seems like a great strategy for MS or any other software company for that matter.
or is anyone else completely sick of hearing about iPods? Who freaking cares. Like Linux, iPods were cool until everyone knew about them.
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I think you've missed the point. Firefox (and it's users) began no with a claim of a faster response to security issues, but rather to a superior security architecture which was less conducive to the remotely exploitable vulnerabilities IE has fallen victom to. Clearly they were wrong and now all they have to hang on to is their response time, which they push every second they can.
I *LOVE* how Firefox users have changed their tune in recent months. It's no longer "Firefox is more secure than IE!" and has no become "It's now about which is more secure, it's about response times!". :) It makes me smile every time.
This is Slashdot. If some completely clueless 11 yr old blog writer can make headlines by doing an ROI comparison of Windows and Linux (which favors Linux) then why wouldn't this?
Staroffice is a complete migraine... Can Google really make it unsuck?
No, that's why would, but you probably wouldn't want to.
If you've read any of his previous works, you'd realize that for every positive impact of these technologies there are 500 negative impacts.
I remember in The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurtzweil spoke of nanotechnology being able to replace or complement neurons in the brain to create the ultimate in 'virtual reality'. Sure, it could be fantastic, create your own reality at the click of a button. Complete with smells, touches, tastes... your limit is only that of your imagination. Amazing! But then you start to think about addiction... I mean, this basically means you can create a world where all your deepest desires are realized... why would you want to leave a place like that? You wouldn't.
There have been free PDF creators for at least 9 years, but Apple just introduced native conversion support woth OSX, now that's all I use. Anyways, have fun fighting your little war. I'm sure making business decisions based on religious bias is doing wonders for your company.
Vista will be released and everyone is going to migrate to Linux. I'm sure Microsoft is shaking in their boots.
Listen people, only Mexican corporations will migrated to Linux based on licensing costs. The rest of the world doesn't give shit.
Sure, but the point is that Firefox growth is slowing... not that their userbase is increasing. If the percentages remain the same it's likely that IEs userbase increased to 100,000% as well. Also, when you consider the type of users which make up the vast majority of Firefox supports (not just those who installed it once but those who use it), I think you'd find that they aren't *new* web users. It's safe to say that at this stage in the game, new web users are probably not savy enough to prioritize browser security high enough to find and use an alternative web browser.
We're talking about percentages...it doesn't matter if you have more or less web users...10, or 10,000,000, 7% is still 7%.
You're missing the point. Popularity doesn't exactly equate to 'enterprise class'. Look at nmap, everyone knows and uses it. Is it enterprise class? No. Enterprise class means it's designed to be deployed across an entire enterprise/organization with centralized management, out of the box.
How can you not look at an article title like: "Windows beat Unix, but it won't beat Linux" and not laugh. Ha, Slashdot is freaking hilarious.