Firefox Founders: "We want to make money..." 10174

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 08:14:53 +0100, Mark Kent

Myself, I don't believe they're paid. I only plonk the really tedious and offensive, like tab, Heenan, K-Kiddy and followers, and 7, but I think they're all (the anti-Linux crowd) mainly motivated by a desire to yank our chains and not much else. It doesn't seem inconceivable to me that they can and do believe that they're right and we're wrong

But who *are* the audience out there?

I'd agree with this in principle, except that it's nearly impossible in practise. Nothing can really be discussed in isolation - people are bound to make comparisons, in fact, it's hard to avoid doing so. And not even the die-hard Linuxers here always agree with eachother. If *no one* ever challenges our views and beliefs, how are we to test whether they are correct?

But we're by and large going to be advocating to Windows users, so Windows is going to have to come into it somewhere - even if only as a whipping boy :-)

I *would* like to see less tedious trolling, though even a troll can provide a launch-pad for advocacy, IMO. I just wish they'd use a little more imagination

Never could get into cricket, I'm afraid. I'm with Morse: "incomprehensible rules, nothing happening for hours at a time... not my cup of tea." (Or words to that effect, I haven't watched 'Deceived By Flight' for a while).

-- Kier