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It Was Five Years Ago Today

that Mozilla released Firefox 1.0 to play… And for Internet Exploder, it was the day the music died.
Chrome was not a gleam in Google’s collective eye, and my favorite, Opera, was only available as a paid application.
So unless you’re a Microsoft fanboy, you have a lot to be thankful for today (even Microsoft fanboys should [...]

Upcoming Firefox Makeover – Imitation (of Chrome) Truly The Most Sincere Flattery

In a move that may prove the undoing of the Firefox market share, the developers are stating that Firefox will get some changes as a nod to the changing face of Windows, but also the details show that more than a few of the proposed changes will make the new Firefox look more than a [...]

Mozilla Raindrop – Great Idea, But Will It Deliver?

Mozilla has produced Firefox, which is a wildly popular e-mail application, and many would say it broke the too long held hegemony of Microsoft, in an unfair war it waged on users. The program has continued to be in the forefront of design, and leads in ways other than mindshare.
On the other hand, Thunderbird was [...]

Business Knows No Friends, & Microsoft is in Business

Part of the problem with those who wish to portray Microsoft as this great benevolent entity is the fact that it is forgotten that no company, at its core, is in business to make friends. The motive is profit. Greed is what drives Microsoft, and if there are benefits along the way, that is inconsequential [...]

Mozilla: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Once I was a real fan of the Mozilla project. I used the products, and bought the merchandise. I spread the word.
Then I stopped.
Why? Because the company seems to manage its projects as badly as Microsoft. They have no reason to. There is no huge number of employees refusing to communicate with each other, and [...]

Who Do You Trust?

One of the truisms I grew up with was “Figures don’t lie, but any liar can figure”. Over the years, I have found it was applicable in many areas of life, and now I am finding that, more than ever before, it works well in the area of claims for use by software authors.
With the [...]

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