NYTimes: The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Firefox is on Fire!

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Gerry McKiernan 
Classic Overnight Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

The Fox Is in Microsoft's Henhouse (and Salivating)
By RANDALL STROSS 
Published: December 19, 2004

[ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html ]

FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making.

Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting
open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer
programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with
features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox
installs in a snap, and it's free.

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With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to
your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are
already using it.) It is polished, as easy to use as Internet Explorer
and, most compelling, much better defended against viruses, worms and
snoops.

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