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{ Monthly Archives } January 2006

Why Microsoft Windows Vista users will leave Firefox

I read that in an upcoming version of Firefox, the increasingly popular free software web browser, there will be an “Exit Survey”. Ben Goodger, a Firefox developer, writes in his blog:
We’d like to know why people leave Firefox. A survey on uninstall would help us find ways to make the software better in future [...]

Freedom falls with celebration.

For those of you who don’t know:

MP3 is patent-encumbered. The algorithms used to make or play MP3s are patented and (in some countries, like the US) must be licensed before they can be used legally (glossing over some details here in the interest of brevity). The license structure is incompatible with free software.
Fluendo, [...]

The US will have to wait.

I was browsing my public library in late October and I jotted down something I forgot to bring up here. I read this on page 23 of the October 28, 2005 Chicago Reader in a full-page ad:
There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting [...]