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Re: The Eric S. Raymond method (a.k.a. Raymondism)

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____/ George Kettleborough on Thursday 26 February 2009 10:46 : \____

> If market share really mattered then IE, Opera and Safari (proprietary
> web browsers) would be out of use already, because Firefox is chosen by
> more users than each of them.  The reality is, of course, that users are
> choosing Firefox because of its technical superiority, not because it is
> Free Software.

One of the advantages of Firefox is the large number of extensions. I believe
that the Free software nature of the company/product matters here a lot.

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