Storming the Microsoft Edifice
October 17, 2004 1 Comment
An interesting article by Sam Hiser that touches on the fact that apps such as Firefox and OpenOffice.org can really help Open Source, even when run on Windows. By not allowing web protocols and file formats to be dictated, you really are helping yourself and your company. But this isn't why many people are migrating. In fact, some of the people migrating probably don't know what a web protocol is. They do know that Firefox is a more secure browser that just plain works better though. They get what they want, and Open Source takes a small but important step.
–jeremy
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Its funny about that. I had a lot of trouble when IE 6 came out. The darn thing kept crashing. So, I “shopped around”. This was the time that Netscape 6 was coming out. Once I found out that it had tabs, I was hooled. Soon, I was led to Mozilla and open source came to be my friend. I was one of the first to download Phoenix 0.1 and I loved it. it loaded pages so fast and there was no worry about crap being installed on my Windows box. I never looked back! Now I advocate.