__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Thursday 06 July 2006 14:15 \__
> Further quote:
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> ...if you had a development cycle for a Firefox OS, and you had 10
> percent of the computers in the world going out with Fire OS on it,
> then we would see some improvements in this corporation in Redmond.
> Because they don't improve and they don't innovate unless they have
> somebody taking apart their market share.... you could really do
> something that looked like Windows, worked better than Windows.
> Microsoft installed spyware called Genuine Advantage to 100 million
> Windows users in April, May and June. They're just starting to fall
> back from that, but people would trust Firefox and Mozilla far more
> than they trust the Microsoft Corp. with the integrity of their
> computers."
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> End quote
This very much reminds me of something else that Blake recently said in an
interview:
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| The truth is I think Microsoft is very directly responsible for spyware
| and adware and the pop-up ads in general that proliferated across the
| Web after they abandoned their product. I mean, this is the world's
| most-used software application ever ... and I just think it's
| irresponsible for a company to abandon it simply because they can't
| find a financial incentive to continue development on it.
|
| [...]
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| My answer to that is, how much can you really trust a company that five
| years ago completely left you abandoned? If they do, in fact, succeed in
| taking back some of the market share that Firefox has gotten back from
| them, who's to say that they're not going to disappear again? My issue
| is not so much at a product level; it's at a company level. How do you
| trust a company that left everyone out in the cold for five years?
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Best wishes,
Roy
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