IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
14-05-2005, 17:26
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IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
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IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open-source Web browser's quest to chip away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM's staff, or about 30,000 people. Starting Friday, IBM workers can download the browser from internal servers and get support from the company's help desk staff.
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http://news.com.com/IBM+backs+Firefo...l?tag=nefd.top
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14-05-2005, 17:33
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Re: IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
now i'm a frefox zealot if ever there was one, but 'm not sure this constitues noteworthy news 
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14-05-2005, 19:50
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Re: IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
IBM? Didn't they enable Bill Gates to make his fortune?
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14-05-2005, 19:54
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Re: IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
According to this...
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IBM is one of the larger corporate contributors to Mozilla and has kept Mozilla developers on its payroll since the start of the project in 1998 (or earlier, if you count the people it employed to develop the OS/2 versions of Netscape in the mid-Nineties). In 2003, Big Blue took on several Netscape employees laid off by AOL when the Netscape browser development division was shut down.
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14-05-2005, 19:57
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Re: IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
Wouldn't it be fair to say that IBM have an axe to grind with MS? If so, it's hardly a surprise, they'd recommend just about everything regardless of it's quality over IE.
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14-05-2005, 20:15
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Re: IBM encourages employees to use Firefox
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Originally Posted by scastle
IBM? Didn't they enable Bill Gates to make his fortune?
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well yes in a sense, cause they tried to get someone else to help them and they told them where to go, so thtey went back to Bill, and got Microsoft to make software for their systems.
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