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Thanks for that, Seth - I've put your message on the main page.

Tom

Quoting Seth Dillingham <seth@macrobyte.net>:

> Msg URL: http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/560 > -------------------------------------- > > On 5/13/05, Tom Wilson said: > > >The same source tells us that IBM is promoting the use of Firefox to > >its staff (against MSoft's Internet Explorer), making the software > >available for downloading from its own servers and providing an > >internal Help Desk. With a reported 10% of staff already using it > >(that's about 30,000 people, apparently!), presumably the take-up is > >likely to be rapid. With IBM pushing Firefox in this way, how long > >will it take other companies to do the same? > > IBM is also one of the two largest corporate sponsors of the Mozilla > Foundation, and has the largest (or second largest, people keep moving > around) number of programmers being paid to develop Firefox, full time. > > (Most people think Firefox was developed by volunteers, but the lion's > share of the work was done by professional developers who are well paid > for what they're doing.) > > Seth > > > -------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe from this list visit: > http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/members/settings/preferences$conversation=irweblog&plugin=Email%20Interface > >

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