Now I’ll admit I haven’t always given Firefox a good press. But sometimes I think they don’t set themselves up in the nicest way. The religious fervour of Firefox fans goes to the levels of extremism. Yes, maybe you like it. But it’s a web browser. Get a life.
I had mixed feelings, therefore, reading this post by Ed Bott.
Gee, guess who reserved the following domains:
Hint: It wasn’t Microsoft.
I think one of the comments put it best: (UPDATE: I’ve now added the comment which went before that as it then makes sense.)
Fanboyism at it’s [sic] finest. It will be fun to see Microsoft’s legal hounds jump on this and sue them into oblivion.
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The best part about this is that if Microsoft was to do this then they would be ripped a new one by the community. Is it me or does the underdog always end up being just as bad as the supposed Golith they are out to slay?
I suppose Microsoft haven’t exactly been shining examples of good behaviour in the browser wars, but it still annoys me somehow. Maybe I’ve become an IE-fanboy.
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