[ILUG] Firefox in the news

[Pat Conlon]

Yes its a shame the media tends to trivialise a whole new software 
development paradigm that flys in the face of many traditional software 
engineering practices as a few teenage geeks.


Dave Lillis wrote:

>Anyone see the article on Firefox in yesterday's Indo? (free
>subscription required):
>http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=45&si=1329749&issue_id=12014
>
>Sure, it makes a nice story (nerdy teenager single-handedly produces a
>new browser to challenge a huge international corporation) but you'd
>think they'd even pretend to have done some background research before
>writing a story about it, even if the mainstream media's knowledge of
>free software is hardly what you'd call "enlightened".
>
>Dave
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