Wrangling the web into an open future
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| "Yeah," Baker agrees. "By open source standards we're a giant, and we have an
| unbelievable amount of resources; and compared to [Microsoft], we're a gnat.
| We sit in the middle of many things, and finances are clearly one of them.
|
| "One of the things we do is keep a healthy bank account, so that if something
| should change, we have the resources to figure out our next plan. Google has
| been an extraordinary partner and does not try to tie the revenue
| relationship to what our product is, but I think everyone's pretty reassured
| that we're not living hand-to-mouth. If something were to go wrong, we have
| some savings."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/interviews.opensource
"Microsoft: still a bunch of gangsters."
-- Financial Times Writer, reaction to Microsoft 'open' pledge, 2008
http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2008/02/wilcox-watch-bu.html
It has just occurred to me that on top of the EU fines and the Yahoo |(to-be)
debt, Microsoft will have the class action for Vista lies to pay for. Oh
Lordy! No wonder the company invests in scared shills instead of new decent
products.
Related:
600,000,000 Add-on Downloads
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| Earlier this week, [addons.mozilla.org] served its 600 millionth add-on
| download. That’s original downloads, not including updates. We currently have
| over 4000 add-ons hosted on the site and between 800,000 and 1 million
| downloads every day. The site has around 4.5 million pageviews per day, not
| including services hosted on AMO such as update checks and blocklisting.
|
| AMO now receives around 100 million add-on update pings every day, which
| means that of those 600 million downloads, about 100 million add-ons are
| still installed.
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http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/01/30/600000000-add-on-downloads/
'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags
,----[ Quote ]
| Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide
| dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web
| browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it's been
| for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even
| threatening to tip the scales in some European countries -- most likely
| thanks to the rapid internationalization efforts made possible by the
| open-source development model.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/firefox-made-wo.html
Firefox took large share off Internet Explorer in 2007
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| Oceania, which includes Australia, New zealand and Papua New Guinea, is now
| the leading continent in Firefox use, with Firefox holding 31.1% marketshare,
| up from 29% in November.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16329/1054/
Microsoft's browser market share drops 9.5 percent in a year
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft Explorer's share of the browser market has fallen almost 10 percent
| in the past 12 months, to 63.9 percent, mostly at the expense of Firefox
| which has boosted its share from 11.8 to 17.4 percent.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14373/1054/
Firefox passes 400 million downloads
,----[ Quote ]
| Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread
| Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773836-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
IE6: The zombie browser
,----[ Quote ]
| Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and
| perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse
| will take decades to decompose.
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http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/09/ie6-the-zombie-.html
IE7 Bites the Dust! Firefox 2.0 Did It!
,----[ Quote ]
| In the same three months, Internet Explorer 7 only managed to move up from
| 32.02% to 33.15% and to 33.55%, meaning that in the past two months IE7 only
| jumped 1.53%.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE7-Bites-the-Dust-Firefox-2-0-Did-It-64490.shtml
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