[ubuntu-in] A decade of real choice - there's no app for that (firefox's legacy)

[James Sebastian]

Thanks Ram for sharing this great artcle

Regards,
James


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
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>
> A perspective on Firefox and its legacy in todays over crowded world of
> unthinking apps.
>
> The original post is long enough for it to bounce - so below is the url
> and some of the initial text.
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> Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/
> Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts
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> A decade of real choice - there's no app for that
>
> By Matt Asay<http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/>
>
> Posted in Developer <http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/developer/>, 28th
> September 2012 14:59 GMT <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/>
>
> *Open ... and Shut* It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the
> web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.
>
> As mainstream users came to equate Internet Explorer's logo with the Web,
> Microsoft worked to lock in its advantage with increasingly proprietary
> technology like ActiveX. It surely would have done so, too, but for the
> seemingly futile Mozilla browser, née Firefox. Born in the ashes of
> Netscape's failed browser business 10 years ago this month as Phoenix,
> Firefox 1.0 is arguably the most important technology developed in the last
> 50 years.
>
> Precisely because it is about more than technology.
>
> Yes, *that* Firefox, the one that for years gobbled away at IE's 95 per
> cent market share, only to be largely supplanted in the hearts and minds of
> the geek elite by Google Chrome (though not in actual market share<http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/firefox-continues-to-gain-as-internet-explorer-chrome-slide/>
>  [1]).
>
> Given technology's focus on the latest and greatest, it's easy to forget
> that much of this "latest and greatest" wouldn't even be possible without
> the work Mozilla did for years with Firefox. Or that dominating the browser
> market was never Mozilla's aim with Firefox.
>
> Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web
> freedom.
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