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[News] How Cattle Effect Hurts Free Software

  • Subject: [News] How Cattle Effect Hurts Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:34:06 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
But Everyone Uses It

,----[ Quote ]
| Ah, the "everyone else has it" myth!
| 
| [...]
| 
| You don't have to feel guilty about taking something you didn't pay for. And 
| you don't have to shell out a single cent. Welcome to freedom! 
`----

http://goodcomputing.blogspot.com/2007/11/but-everyone-uses-it-ah-everyone-else_06.html
http://tinyurl.com/3as3ev

Firefox (maybe even Google) as a success story:

Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?

,----[ Quote ]
| Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an 
| open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world 
| without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.  
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12link.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

And below you see Microsoft forces the 'cattle' to eat the new Web Microsoft
browser. It's like a totalitarian regime.


Related:

IE7 Released As High-Priority Update

,----[ Quote ]
| "Looks like FF2 is already outnumbering FF 1.5, while IE7 is having a
| hard time to find followers. Will today's release as a
| high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?"
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1424203&from=rss

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