Tag: firefox

Can you simply avoid anti-trust issues by paying a competitor to stay in business?

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Firefox’s sale of their search box, purchased by Google for three years and one billion dollars (give or take) has to be driven by something, especially as it’s three times what they were paying before. They’ve left behind “do no evil” so until I read otherwise, I’ll go with MG Siegler’s answer that they’re ensuring Firefox doesn’t damage their business by (a) going to Bing, or (b) going away and leaving Chrome as the dominant web browser… and Google open to Anti-Trust issues.

Open Source Should Be Used By Government, Say The Tories

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While I’ve not delved too deeply into this one – and I doubt I could delve as much as Microsoft’s lawyers will, the proposal (from the Tory party) on IT projects run by the government makes some sensible sounding recommendations. The first is the headline one, with the report saying that projects should make more use of Open Source projects. Rather than buying complicated CMS systems for websites and projects, there should be consideration to just use an installation of WordPress; Open Office is a viable alternative; that sort of stuff. Which is all good – WordPress has stability through

Writing About Considering Everything

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I’ve started to do some writing over on the Blogger Advocacy section of Creative Choices, a website set up to “[help] individuals takie control of their own career decisions [by making sure] they are well informed and supported in their desire to succeed. My first post is about browser and computing compatibility online: In extreme circumstances, where a website doesn’t load correctly, you might have people skipping over your site purely because it doesn’t work 100% perfectly in their web browser, even if the information they’re looking for is in front of them.. Woe betide you if you pop up