Firefox is a massive success in Europe, but what is striking about its adoption is the variation from country to country. For example, in Finland it has a market share of over 45%, while in the UK, to its eternal shame, it is a pathetic 20%. How can such a huge disparity be explained?
Well, I have my dark theories involving Bill Gates and a poodle, but putting those aside for the moment, here's an interesting attempt from Mozilla to find out more....
On Open Enterprise blog.
Yes. And no...
ReplyDeleteMozilla have started a right-royal storm with the imposition of an EULA on 3.0.2. Not funny and not nice...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656
Yes, there are obviously lots of issues that need resolving here....
ReplyDeleteOMG, not a Eula! The Horror!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stallman.
Mitchell Baker, head of Mozilla, has now admitted they got it wrong:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/09/15/ubuntu-firefox-and-license-issues/