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Re: [News] [OSS] Mozilla Gets Some More Honours from Microsoft-hired Shill

  • Subject: Re: [News] [OSS] Mozilla Gets Some More Honours from Microsoft-hired Shill
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 23:20:41 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Mozilla Firefox 2 Listed as Finalist on Webware 100
> 
> ,----[ Quote ] | Firefox 2 is a finalist in the Webware 100 Browsing 
> category. | Other Mozilla-related finalists in the same category 
> include | the Firefox-based Flock browser and the Greasemonkey 
> extension. `----
> 
> http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=21875

http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100.html

I voted for:

Browsing: Firefox
Communications: Pidgin
Community: Netscape
Data: Google
Entertainment: <blank>
Media: GooTube
Mobile: <blank>
Productivity: Amazon
Publishing: Drupal
Reference: Wikipedia

I left the "Entertainment" category blank because I'd simply never heard
of any of those sites. If they'd had it, I would have voted for these
guys, who are totally nuts:

http://www.improveverywhere.com

Same with the "Mobile" category (although of course I have heard *of*
Google Mobile Maps), except I never use it, or anything else on my
mobile other than making voice calls.

In "Communications", I would have voted for the IPV6 protocol, if it'd
been there. Likewise I would have voted for either Slashdot, Hexus or
[H]ardOCP in "Community". Although I voted for Google in "Data", I'm not
sure that's the appropriate category - I would have placed it in
"Reference", but still voted for Wikipedia in preference, and voted for
BitTorrent in "Data" instead.

It was a tough call in their "Productivity and Commerce" combined
category. I really wanted to vote for either eBay or Google Docs, but in
the end I had to pick Amazon. About the only thing Amazon doesn't sell
is groceries (OK there are a few other things too), but if they did then
they'd be pretty much the only company I'd deal with. From a company
that started out just selling books, it really has become the best one
stop shop for everything. I couldn't pass up the chance to vote for them.

> Sadly, that comes from the same scum that sent Vista laptops to 
> bloggers (and then suffered a boycott). Like Gartner, IDC, Enderle
> Group, Yankee Group, and NPD, these are people who get many of their
> cheques from Microsoft.

Yes, CNET is hardly impartial.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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