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[CS-FSLUG] Is FireFox anti-microsoft?

Frank Bax fbax at sympatico.ca
Fri Feb 4 22:43:28 EST 2005


How do you figure that a licensing issue might be involved here?


At 10:32 PM 2/4/05, Christopher Rose wrote:

>Given how Micro$oft likes to force a license onto you for every piece of 
>software installed and Linux doesn't, perhaps the people at 
>Mozilla/Firefox have chosen to go the route of open source and no licence. 
>I am using Firefox 1.0 and it works fine for me, but then again, I 
>strictly use Linux.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Bax" <fbax at sympatico.ca>
>To: christiansource at ofb.biz
>Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Is FireFox anti-microsoft?
>Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 22:08:17 -0500
>
> >
> > Are there any other file systems besides MS that either use drive
> > letters or do not have a single  'root' directory (MS has a root
> > dir for each drive letter)?  I ask because I thought I found a bug
> > in FireFox:
> >          http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=213537
> > But when I searched Bugzilla, I found this one that seems the same:
> >
> > 
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321
> > Now I'm wondering if the FireFox people have taken an
> > anti-microsoft stand, but are pretending not to?




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