For companies like Microsoft and Mozilla, Safari coming to Windows means that one more competitor will be thrown into the Windows browser battlefield. While neither company has expressed dismay with Apple's decision to put Safari on Windows, on Monday executives from both Microsoft and Mozilla expressed a lack of concern for their new (Windows) foe.
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mattflaschen
19 years 4 days 5 hours 37 min ago
Safari isn't free software, though
Safari isn't free software, though it certainly takes advantage of it (KHTML, etc.)
mattflaschen
19 years 4 days 2 hours 5 sec ago
Every program has some impact on
Every program has some impact on the free software community. Most proprietary programs compete with some free program; that doesn't mean they're all worth discussing. The only really interesting thing about Safari is that it uses KHTML and kJS, so that's what I mentioned.
Jimbob
19 years 4 days 5 hours 29 min ago
Are you going to say this sort
Are you going to say this sort of thing every time a piece of news comes in that is not about free software but that has an impact on the free software community?
Safari is now a competitor to Firefox on Windows machines. You do understand it is, therefore, newsworthy to the free software community, right?
snotbutter
19 years 4 days 1 hour 44 min ago
@matt: Did you miss the bit in
@matt: Did you miss the bit in the title the bit about the Mozilla executive responding? Does Mozilla's response not count as free software related either?
mattflaschen
19 years 3 days 23 hours 21 min ago
You're right that Mozilla is commenting,
You're right that Mozilla is commenting, and Mozilla is free software. That's a reasonable justification for a story here. But I'm still not very interested.