Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Jul 2009 07:29 UTC
Last week, the European Commission announced that Microsoft is willing to implement a browser ballot screen in Windows so that users can select a browser to install when installing Windows or when setting up their OEM computer. While this makes Opera very happy, Opera would like to see Ubuntu and Apple offer such a ballot screen too.
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RE[2]: Ubuntu already has a "ballot box"
by aesiamun on Mon 27th Jul 2009 18:01
in reply to "RE: Ubuntu already has a "ballot box""
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And where does it stop? A ballot site for your search engines? A ballot site for your news sites? A ballot for RSS readers? IM clients? Audio software? Photo editing?
The small guy is complaining because they are smaller than they want to be...stand in line with everyone else who wants to take advantage of Microsoft's market dominance.
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2005-07-26
Good point. Yes it does. And it's "optional". Which it should be, being a component of a *free* OS, people.
I'm just fine with the idea of a "forced" ballot screen in a commercial product (not too many though), but I really hope thats where it stays.