2009/3/12 Rob Beard <[email protected]>: > Yep two quality applications from the Mozzarella Foundation. It's what > the Inquirer call Mozilla. Microsoft is known as the Vole, Intel as > Chipzilla and AMD as Chimpzilla. > > There's a full list here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquirer#Nicknames_and_terminology
Handy list - nice one! Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out /why/ Microsoft became "Vole". The British common field vole, you see, is technically called /Microtus agrestis/. Which is pleasingly close to an agressive Microsoft. ... and I sometimes write for the Inquirer! 8-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: liamproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
