[pchelpers] Article:Firefox: Gates' worst nightmare?

p2p news / p2pnet: Microsoft's Bill Gates had better start taking notes, 
believes The Daily Telegraph.

Why so?

Because, Mozilla's FireFox browser has, "gobbled up market share at the 
expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has been riddled with 
security problems for years and does not have the same function-ality as 
Firefox," says the story.

"Firefox is not just a good product; being an open-source creation 
immediately gives it an anti-corporate kudos among internet users."

Unlike Microsoft, "which employs a legion of highly paid software 
engineers," Mozilla, "relies on a small internal team and the goodwill 
and hard work of tens of thousands of unpaid volunteers to create its 
products," The Daily Telegraph says.

"Profit, dividends and returns on investment do not enter the equation." 
This means Mozilla leader Mitchell Baker, "is quite possibly Bill 
Gates's worst nightmare".

She's the head of the Mozilla Foundation whose Firefox now has an 
estimated 50,000,000 users world-wide and an estimated 15% of the global 
browser market.

"The reason you may not have heard of Mozilla is that it has no 
shareholders, no investors and no directors on multi-million dollar 
salaries," the story says, going on:

More here:
http://p2pnet.net/story/8902
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