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Good 'ol Kiwi know how.

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:21 pm
by Mobius
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Ben Goodger, the lead developer of Firefox speaks out. Worth a read, if you care!

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:08 am
by Sirius
He's actually doing a presentation at the University of Auckland on Monday... unfortunately I won't be able to attend since I'm stuck in a lecture at precisely the same time...

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:55 am
by roid
The web browser wars are over and Microsoft won, right?

Well someone's forgotten to tell Ben Goodger and his team at the Mozilla Foundation because this Kiwi software engineer is taking market share from Internet Explorer (IE) with Firefox, the browser that's smaller yet smarter than just about anything else available.
i'm not sure how market share, for a FREE PRODUCT means anything. can anyone explain?

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:07 am
by Defender
Taking market share doesn't mean they're making money, it means that they're basically taking people away from IE.
You don't have to pay for IE either.

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:52 am
by roid
yeah i know, that's my point.

why do EITHER of them really care? is there some kindof source of income here i'm not seeing?

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:26 pm
by Tetrad
roid wrote:why do EITHER of them really care? is there some kindof source of income here i'm not seeing?
For MS sure, they use IE as sort of a gateway program to a whole host of web development software that they sell that only really works well in IE. Along with the consumer benefits like pointing them automatically to MSN and it's kin of services.

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:51 pm
by Defender
roid wrote:why do EITHER of them really care? is there some kindof source of income here i'm not seeing?
Well, why develop a product if you don't want it to be popular?

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:05 pm
by Mr. Perfect
roid wrote:why do EITHER of them really care? is there some kindof source of income here i'm not seeing?
MS wants eveything, and others don't want them to have it? ;)

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:10 pm
by Duper
I d/l'd it, installed it, I'm hooked. 8)

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:28 pm
by snoopy
yeah, I like it.