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Re: [News] Firefox Gaining, Web Applications May Already Beat Desktop Applications

thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Dell is now coming under a lot of pressure to preinstall Firefox. I posted
>> about this a couple of hours ago. I bet he'll do something about it (not
>> just in the UK where it has been available for almost a year). Bear in mind
>> that Michael Dell uses Firefox on his Ubuntu Linux laptop. It's a shame that
>> Microsoft made IE impossible to remove. The fiends. Gates' deposition video
>> comes to mind... "if we put it right in their face, so to speak, they will
>> not have a reason to use something else [Netscape]".
> 
> What?  IE is easy to remove.  Of course I end up taking the entire 
> Windows OS with it... that's a feature, not a bug.
> 
>>;)
> 

Hehe - excellent remark - that deserves to be a .sig, or even a
tag-line.  Perhaps Homer might give it a place in his stats :-)

> Thad (just finished replacing yet another Windows box with Ubuntu)
> 
> 


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