Thanks Ram for sharing this great artcle Regards, James
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > > 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. > > > > ** > > Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/28/firefox_legacy/ > Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts > > 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. > -- > Ram > _________________________________________________________<http://www.munsiari.com> > Amazing Indians: Transforming lives in the > hills<http://www.timesnow.tv/Amazing-Indians-Transforming-lives-in-the-hills/videoshow/4383022.cms> > Himal Prakriti - A Trust for Nature <http://www.himalprakriti.org> > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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