Two recent quotes on open source software from the press ecosystem:
In retrospect, there was a little side-story in the QTrax story which I missed completely at the time [...] — QTrax’ choice of a Firefox plug-in as the client. Nobody said “Firefox? WTF?”.
Had the browser in question been Opera or Safari or any of the many other browsers which have enough users to fill a city or six, WTF would have echoed from the Artex. Firefox is the only mainstream desktop application for Windows that Microsoft doesn’t own – and it’s managed it so stealthily that nobody’s even noticed.
Rupert Goodwins from ZDNet UK in his blog post Europe: endless speculation about Firefox (emphasis mine)
Linux is an open-source operating system, which used to be the reserve of computer geeks but is now an easy-to-use system aimed at average users.
French news agency AFP in French police deal blow to Microsoft (emphasis added)
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