Thursday, August 11, 2005

Unhappiness drives open source adoption - Computer Business Review:
"For instance, DiBona pointed out that if Google used Windows, or any other non-open source software program, to make changes to that system he would be required to essentially ask permission from that vendor. 'Why should we hand over the control of our software support to another company?'"


Well, I guess Google can afford to. They've got all those PHD hackers employed for them! :)

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...