Submitted by This week the Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0, and that occasion did not go by unnoticed at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team. “The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent us a cake for the upcoming release of Firefox 2! A big thanks to Redmond, Washington!” What’s next, Stallman on a dinner date with Ballmer?
Make love, not software.
LOL
Remind me to google this in a couple of weeks’ time and see if this page comes up:
“stallman and ballmer” “make love”
…
On second thoughts, maybe that’s a search too far.
“Hey! That’s so nice. Hmm… it’s ticking.”
…that’s cute.
Stallman: “Hey would you like some hair? It is free you know.”
Ballmer: Freaking developers…developers, developers!!
Hmmmm they are good competitors because they congratulate there rivals.
That’s not entirely true: Firefox runs on Windows, so they get the world’s 1st or 2nd best browser on their operating system. If somehow someone releases a browser that causes users to switch en masse to a different platform, chair shops in the Redmond area will experience a sudden and dramatic increase in sales.
because if it weren’t for Firefox Microsoft would never have put the team back together seeing as how Microsoft disbanded them back in 2002/2003.
And Microsoft is also grateful for real competition. Without competition, everyone would be screaming “monopoly!” even louder still – and the DOJ and EU would be pounding on them even worse.
It is healthy business to have competition, and Microsoft has learned this
It is healthy business to have competition, and Microsoft has learned this
I was with you right up to this part.
Amein!!!
Let’s not forget this:
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15586
I’m sure there are still those conspiracy theorists out there, however, that can’t for the life of them figure out why Microsoft would welcome their competition.
….because since IE copied the blueprint that Mozilla created, they were actually able to meet a deadline. Unlike that clusterf*ck – P.O.S operating system that’s coming out soon.
Hm… how can this be spun to make Microsoft look evil? Some help here please.
They obviously only sent the cake to fatten up the Firefox developers and thereby shorten their lives. What new low will they stoop to next?
that strategy will take too long. instead, the icing was laced with a narcotic substance.
so they were expecting the ff developers to space out and make psychedelic skins that would make normal peoples eyes freak out when we looked at the screen,
thats actually a good idea…
space cakes mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ummmm…the IE team knew that the Firefox team has a significant diabetic contingent, and was taunting them…
(I made that up, having no knowledge of the Firefox team, but liking the “All Redmond Deeds Must Be Interpreted As Evil” meme).
They made the cake from their own faeces. It’s full of ecoli!
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The cake was poisoned!
It has not been widely reported but the cake has steve balmer painted on it with the quotation
“i’m gonna f*cking bury you guys! I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars
In October 1997, Internet Explorer 4.0 was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter “e” logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found that giant logo on their front lawn, with a sign attached which read “From the IE team.” The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading “Netscape 72, Microsoft 18”
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html
loooool nice
The fact is, developers don’t hold their competitors in contempt, hold them as “evil”, or scum, or whatever. They generally respect each other.
Their fanboys, on the other hand…
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Ah so that’s it; MS mercilessly crushed their competition out of respect. It all fits.
Thanks, but if that’s what happens to MS’s heroes, I’d rather be the cause of some serious chairicide.
Twenex, all your chair jokes are kind of… Like, not funny.
Especially when you take into account nobody as ever verified the story which came from an… Ex-employee. Now that’s what I call an unbiased source.
Not to your taste? Fair enough. Nevertheless, urban myths are handy reference points.
Nevertheless, urban myths are handy reference points.
Now that’s funny!
.. 😀
Thom, they are whats called “eye-witness reports”…
now, an eye-witness report will stand up in a court of law unless the aggreived party diputes it.
did ballmer deny it ?
did anyone deny it ?
lack of denial gives weight to the report, therefore it is not unbiased.
but I agree, the chair joke is worn out, lets focus on the main points… ballmers monkey boy dance.
Ah so that’s it; MS mercilessly crushed their competition out of respect
No, they mercilessly crushed the competition because that’s what their shareholders expect them to do.
If you want ethics, then invest in a different company, or use an OS with neglible desktop share.
People seem to expect ethics only when they’re at a disadvantage. If they (or their allies) were using similar tactics, I have little doubt that they’d rationalize it away.
Ah so that’s it; MS mercilessly crushed their competition out of respect
No, they mercilessly crushed the competition because that’s what their shareholders expect them to do.
Yeah, that was kinda the point.
If you want ethics, then invest in a different company, or use an OS with neglible desktop share.
I think you’ll find that’s the case already…
They, much like the fanboys, hold the management in contempt. I don’t see the difference.
It’s always hard to hold your peers in contempt, even if you envy them or despise what their work has done to your typical work-day.
I wonder when they will open up the cake recipe for public scrutiny?
Shared (chocolate) sauce?
Or maybe there’ll just be an accidental-on-purpose release of sauce cocoa from CakeXP.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
IE team to use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox code to improve IE? Nah!
IE team to use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox code to improve IE? Nah!
They wouldn’t doubt if it was licensed like BSD
They wouldn’t doubt if it was licensed like BSD
Too bad it’s not, everyone would be happier! =]
It was a BIG cake and Steve Ballmer jumped out wearing a speedo! It caused the developers to go blind….
>Stallman on a dinner date with Ballmer?
I would pay to see that
Oh, man. I certainly wouldn’t. Ick.
it’s probably a dangerous cake, with experimental chemical substances in its ingredients..
i for one would never let this thing approach me less then few meters..
please insert driver disc for the cake v2.1
cake access violation error, press f1 to continue..
“…unfortunatly the mozilla team was unable to eat because of a possible vonerability in it that could have given the developers a virus. when the developers asked microsoft for the recipe of the cake to confirm that it was ok to eat microsoft said that that was closed information and if they didnt like it they could make there own…”
FireFox Cake 2.0
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Did anyone do a virus scan on the cake? They should send the cake off to some security consultants and see how many bugs there are in it…
I’ll believe the developers respect each other when typing about:mozilla no longer makes IE blue… Does it still do that in version 7?
–bornagainpenguin
Maybe we’re missing the real message here. Marie Antoinette is (some say incorrectly) quoted as saying.. “If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!”
Is this a snide remark about the Mozilla teams finances? Or maybe ‘bread’ means market share/slice of the consumer pie??
Cake or no cake, won’t stop my download of Firefox 2.O
Cake or no cake, won’t stop my download of Firefox 2.O
Why the hell would it?? ….
:-/
Just Microsoft laughing at them for releasing under a ‘major revision’ a version that is little more than a re-skinning… Look, we changed how the UI looks!!! Must be a new version…
Seriously, are there any ‘useful’ features or REAL changes in 2.0 that warrants this new version number, or did they just do the number increase for marketing purposes?
You KNOW when they list ‘visual uplift’ and ‘exit survey’ among the new features, they are really grasping at straws.
For a moment i thought you where talking about IE7 but it turns out you talk about FF2 being just some kind of skin update.
Please try and do some research and then post something usefull because your post makes you look real dumb.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
There are some nice new features like integrated spellchecking (i only installed the german spellchecking so far, so don’t you dare to laugh at my mistakes in this post).
It still is far ahead of internet explorer feature wise.
I guess the cake just shows what i always thought anyway: the guys who do the actual work at Microsoft are your avarage nice programmer you would find in any company.