Microsoft Acquires Mozilla FireFox!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 by Xythe | Discussion: Personal Computing
I wasn't to sure I saw things correctly when I went to the FireFox homepage to download FireFox 2 onto my notebook.
But much to my surprise, I wound up at the MS FireFox home page!
I have not heard of anything about this, and it took me quite by surprise. Did any of you guys hear of anything like this happening?
How do you feel about Microsoft's acquisition of FireFox?
But much to my surprise, I wound up at the MS FireFox home page!
I have not heard of anything about this, and it took me quite by surprise. Did any of you guys hear of anything like this happening?
How do you feel about Microsoft's acquisition of FireFox?
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Xythe
Reply #22 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:51 PM
Reply #22 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:51 PM
Gee, I wonder what MS SuSE will do to the Mac OS? That will be interesting. I think it's interesting enough booting the Mac OS to current many Windows boxes. Link
I suppose you never heard of "The Great Wall of China"?
Anyway, nobody really "needs" anybody, but I suppose when you hold a majority of the market share by a LONGSHOT....well you draw your own conclusions
Link
| I especially love, "In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" |
I suppose you never heard of "The Great Wall of China"?
Anyway, nobody really "needs" anybody, but I suppose when you hold a majority of the market share by a LONGSHOT....well you draw your own conclusions
Link
kona0197
Reply #23 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:27 PM
Not true. I hang out at Linux forums most of the day these days and everybody is pretty much ditching SuSE becuse of what they did. I dig up some links for you later. The story is suppossed to be that Novell did this to keep MS from sueing them over what MS claims, MS claims that the Linux kernel uses some form of MS code.
So anyhow talk to you later.
Reply #23 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:27 PM
| You need to open your eyes my friend. SuSE is currently sleeping with MicroSoft. The news I here is together, they are speculating on developing a hybrid Linux/Windows distribution. |
Not true. I hang out at Linux forums most of the day these days and everybody is pretty much ditching SuSE becuse of what they did. I dig up some links for you later. The story is suppossed to be that Novell did this to keep MS from sueing them over what MS claims, MS claims that the Linux kernel uses some form of MS code.
So anyhow talk to you later.
scorpNZ
Reply #24 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:31 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:31 PM
Making windows and linux more compatible is a good thing and bout time
Ditching SuSE cause they joined forces with MS is small minded in the xtreme how pathetic
Ditching SuSE cause they joined forces with MS is small minded in the xtreme how pathetic
starkers
Reply #26 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:56 PM
Well ain't this just a perfect world....we got Linuxers hating MSers & Macers....we got Macers hating MSers & Linuxers....we got MSer's hating Linuxers & Os-Xers.....
Oh bugger it, let's have a 'small minded' all in brawl to decide who's best....last man standing wins.
Yeah, the companies wheel n' deal to compete....but it's the one eyed, small minded twit fanbois who make this OS wars thing such a farcical (idiotic) affair. In some respects, this takes me back to kindy: "My dad's bigger than your dad!"
At least back then there was flesh n' blood evidence to back up or disprove the claims, but Oses/software are a bunch of dots, zeros and ones that, when loaded into various assemblages of electronic gear, will work differently for different people, alternate uses, so what sense does it make to get up on the fence at daybreak and crow to the world about OS preferences/what works best for you....
I mean, some people use Kleenex, some Wondersoft, and others just tear up strips of newspaper: some prefer the roll end to the front while others like it facing the wall...then some fold while others scrunch, but you never see those preferences being adveritised, bandied about all over the net....peoples hiney wiping preferences, that is. So what is it that brings out the childishness/bickering when it comes to OSes/computers?
There must be more to life than OS arguments....think I'll go check out some recipe books to see who claims to have the best curried cabbage.
Reply #26 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:56 PM
| Well most Linux users hate Windows and MS. |
Well ain't this just a perfect world....we got Linuxers hating MSers & Macers....we got Macers hating MSers & Linuxers....we got MSer's hating Linuxers & Os-Xers.....
Oh bugger it, let's have a 'small minded' all in brawl to decide who's best....last man standing wins.
Yeah, the companies wheel n' deal to compete....but it's the one eyed, small minded twit fanbois who make this OS wars thing such a farcical (idiotic) affair. In some respects, this takes me back to kindy: "My dad's bigger than your dad!"
At least back then there was flesh n' blood evidence to back up or disprove the claims, but Oses/software are a bunch of dots, zeros and ones that, when loaded into various assemblages of electronic gear, will work differently for different people, alternate uses, so what sense does it make to get up on the fence at daybreak and crow to the world about OS preferences/what works best for you....
I mean, some people use Kleenex, some Wondersoft, and others just tear up strips of newspaper: some prefer the roll end to the front while others like it facing the wall...then some fold while others scrunch, but you never see those preferences being adveritised, bandied about all over the net....peoples hiney wiping preferences, that is. So what is it that brings out the childishness/bickering when it comes to OSes/computers?
There must be more to life than OS arguments....think I'll go check out some recipe books to see who claims to have the best curried cabbage.
KeithMacDonald
Reply #27 Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:06 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:06 AM
M$ can't own Linux... it's a different freebees piled as an OS and called Linux... If M$ DOES own Linux, I'm shocked, but trust be, I'm not shocked.
Xythe
Reply #28 Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:33 AM
Ding Ding....GOLD STAR!
I think it's pretty stupid to hate a person because of the OS they end-use.
No, it's just like you say Enigma, MS can never truly own Linux, however they can put their own distro together.
Just to note, remember who Bill gates was working for when DOS was developed, just before he broke away to develop MSDOS in his new company Microsoft?
IBM, a blue-chip stock and one of the pioneers of computing technology.
Reply #28 Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:33 AM
| Ditching SuSE cause they joined forces with MS is small minded in the xtreme how pathetic |
Ding Ding....GOLD STAR!
| Well most Linux users hate Windows and MS. |
I think it's pretty stupid to hate a person because of the OS they end-use.
| If M$ DOES own Linux, I'm shocked, but trust be, I'm not shocked. |
No, it's just like you say Enigma, MS can never truly own Linux, however they can put their own distro together.
Just to note, remember who Bill gates was working for when DOS was developed, just before he broke away to develop MSDOS in his new company Microsoft?
IBM, a blue-chip stock and one of the pioneers of computing technology.
Jeison Iyasu
Reply #29 Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:19 AM
Reply #29 Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:19 AM
I don't think that FireFox will ever want to collaborate or merge in with Microsoft. Not a smart thing to do.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #30 Thursday, November 23, 2006 8:00 AM
Reply #30 Thursday, November 23, 2006 8:00 AM
I don't know which is funnier, the web page or the fact some people think its for real... 
starkers
Reply #32 Thursday, November 23, 2006 9:57 PM
It's reminiscent of the time when some twit suggested the FBI & CIA owned Google....
Or when it was suggested our esteemed Mr Wardell had installed political filters into the Stardock mainframe.
Okay, so he has Joe User/WC surveilance cameras installed on several of NASA's weather satellites ....but political filters, I'm finding that a tad hard to believe.
Reply #32 Thursday, November 23, 2006 9:57 PM
| I don't know which is funnier, the web page or the fact some people think its for real... |
It's reminiscent of the time when some twit suggested the FBI & CIA owned Google....
Or when it was suggested our esteemed Mr Wardell had installed political filters into the Stardock mainframe.
Okay, so he has Joe User/WC surveilance cameras installed on several of NASA's weather satellites ....but political filters, I'm finding that a tad hard to believe.
Xythe
Reply #33 Friday, November 24, 2006 12:24 AM
Not that I think this would happen, but I ask you: Why do you think it is not smart?
Reply #33 Friday, November 24, 2006 12:24 AM
| I don't think that FireFox will ever want to collaborate or merge in with Microsoft. Not a smart thing to do. |
Not that I think this would happen, but I ask you: Why do you think it is not smart?
Xythe
Reply #34 Friday, November 24, 2006 12:25 AM
Why?
Reply #34 Friday, November 24, 2006 12:25 AM
| I don't think that FireFox will ever want to collaborate or merge in with Microsoft. Not a smart thing to do. |
Why?
starkers
Reply #35 Monday, November 27, 2006 9:49 AM
Cos they don't wanna end up with a name like MozillaSoft...or MicroZilla, maybe?
Reply #35 Monday, November 27, 2006 9:49 AM
| Why? |
Cos they don't wanna end up with a name like MozillaSoft...or MicroZilla, maybe?
Jafo
Reply #37 Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:29 AM
Reply #37 Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:29 AM
Ah to be so plugged into the counter-culture of subversion to refer to Microsoft as 'M$'....
So cutting edge....such acerbic wit....
Maybe if MS did own Linux it'd actually become mainstream enough to be usable. Not everyone looks good in a propeller hat, you know...
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Reply #21 Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:30 AM
Here's another one for ya, only it does the penguin a big favor in the fight against Microsoft. Xandros
I especially love, "In a world without fences, who needs Gates?"