New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow, Dec 27, 2004

Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla's Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum--but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft's monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web?

Among the scariest aspects of the problem is that many business executives don't know whether open-source code is in their software, or they mistakenly presume they have none. Either way they could be setting themselves up for a SCO-like lawsuit.

Despite the over-production of rubber penguins and increasing technorati blogging about Open Source across the net, Open Source still has a long way to go in achieving the kind of acceptance and use we as enthusiasts optimistically predict.

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