Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
Mozilla has released the first beta release of Firefox 3.6, which comes with some nice Windows 7 integration features. More specifically, the Firefox 3.6 beta integrates with the new taskbar in Windows 7.
Thread beginning with comment 392205
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE[7]: Comment by tobyv
by BallmerKnowsBest on Sun 1st Nov 2009 23:53
in reply to "RE[6]: Comment by tobyv"
Member since:2008-06-02
"You've described one of the reasons why so many businesses avoid open source software like the plague. There's formally-defined license terms, any reasonable business person would assume "I've complied with the terms of the license, so everything's A-OK."
That should be nothing unusual to businesses, though - the differences between 'legal' and 'socially acceptable' extend far beyond the Open Source communities. Dubious expenses claims by politicians, for example - they might be within the letter of the law, but the public don't find that to be much of an excuse. Or the tax avoidance that several NZ banks are getting beaten up over - legal, but unacceptable to the public. "
Except that Freetards will go into torches-and-pitchforks mode over actions that no reasonable person would consider "unacceptable." Witness all the whining about Google, or Mark Shuttleworth, etc, because they're supposedly "not giving enough back to the community."
The lesson there is: you can spend millions (billions?) of dollars and man-hours on efforts that benefit the "community" - but if you're a business and you don't bend over backwards to appease their every single self-indulgent whim, then be prepared to be labeled as evil.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2008-08-19
That should be nothing unusual to businesses, though - the differences between 'legal' and 'socially acceptable' extend far beyond the Open Source communities. Dubious expenses claims by politicians, for example - they might be within the letter of the law, but the public don't find that to be much of an excuse. Or the tax avoidance that several NZ banks are getting beaten up over - legal, but unacceptable to the public.