Comments on: Microsoft reaches out to Firefox developers

Invites open sourcers to participate in making sure that the browser will get along with Windows Vista.

[Ghost Spider]

The ball is in Mozilla?s court now?.

As for my own thoughts?:

@ Microsoft: Release Vista when it?s ready, I?d like to free up some time on Tuesday?s?..

@ Mozilla: If you smell even a hint of rat, don?t let them near the cheese?..

@ everyone else: L16h73n |_|p! Our opinions really mean very little, unless of course we vote with our wallets. (That?s usually when companies begin to listen to us.)

:p

[kellysontheroad]

This is insane!

It is essential that new versions of windows support legacy programs. The very idea that Microsoft wants to help ?improve? an existing program to run on a new OS is ludicrous!

Who here does not already have a WIN9x machine and possibly even a dos machine hanging around to run software or hardware made unusable by Microsoft?s screw-ups.

The idea that every software and hardware venders should scurry around patching up their software to run on a new OS every few years is unacceptable.

Microsoft is making our lives miserable; Microsoft is not listening to us. Microsoft is giving us everything we don?t want and nothing we do.

Microsoft is NOT GIVING US A CHOICE!


Frustrated.

[Jon N.]

Mozilla: Don't you dare!

Microshaft has their right hand out in friendship, and their left hand is holding a dagger! A lawsuit dagger is my bet. Don't do it! Proprietary software is on it's way out. Do what Novell did, and refuse any proprietary assistance or programming!
Open-Sorce rules, and proprietary drools!

[salli-d]

Wait a minute...

The supposed invite was posted on Google Groups, right?
Would a Microsoft employee use Google in the open for all to
see? I don't know if I trust this report.

[javierlopezroman]

Killing Netscape Twice!!

It occured to me that it would look REALLY bad if Microsoft were to lose significant marketshare to a legitimate and strong open source effort, and suddenly have the entire application function/perform significantly differently (worse) on thier new OS.

As Microsoft has been nearly-convicted several times (they settle often, don't they) of altering thier codebase to cripple/disable 3rd party applications while improving thier own, it could be argued that such degrading changes have occured yet again to Firefox.

Combined with the Netscape and antitrust history (all of it blurs together), they may be fearing the legitimacy of ANOTHER case against them, a very strong case given the prior legally-acknowledged evidence against them.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Netscape killed themselves, MS had inside help

No company can survive forever when they continually make poor decisions and any critical look at the decisions Netscape made are perfect evidence that they killed themselves, MS was just in a perfect position to take the market share as the users defected from a company that changed their strategy so frequently they couldn't come up with new products before they dropped them in favor of another new idea.

[R Me]

MS BS

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Firefox already runs successfully on existing Windows, Linux and Macintosh operating systems. Testing by ZDNet UK Reviews found that it also runs well in Vista beta 2, so it's not clear why Mozilla would need help from Microsoft.
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IE is severely non-compliant to any standards. What MS want is for FF to follow suit and become as non-complaiant as MS.

I suggest FF work with MS but insist that IE and other MS products follow the set standards, and when MS balks then it is time to pull out. That is much better PR than telling MS to **** and go away. At least they[MS] were given a chance to join the real world of software development.

[zeras]

Microsoft + Mozilla = What?!!?!!?!?!

Microsoft + Mozilla = What?!!?!!?!?!

After the years of bashing and
fighting, over the Broswers
the ppl of Nerd town have noticed
something, that ppl are converting over
to Mozilla's FireFox more and more than ever...
I gesse by the end of next year, Mozilla,
will be the most used Web brower of all time.

psshh.. Oprea are u there??