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Story: Firefox: The ultimate test for open source?

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Well,
This article is typical media-hype to generate readership of a weak aricle.

Firstly, whilst I agree with your comments that Firefox should be compared on an equal footing with IE, that is a fair point, but does not warrant a leader article because it is blindingly obvious. I do not agree your interpretation that the responses from other readers is newsworthy.

Secondly, your article shows a complete lack of understanding about the Open Source community. Frankly, there are plenty of highly biased people in the community, whose heart is in the right place but do not understand just how venal this industry really is.

To take the chatter on an article like this and then publish a *leader article* based on it is, in my opnion worse than the chatter your original article generated. Where are your facts? Are the people flaming you responsible for major Open Source projects? The only factual substance in the article is that Firefox should be judged on a par with its competition. There is a minor interest item that this is the first publically visible "retail" Open Source project. There's your article, not much of a leader is it?

In my view, your article shows poor journalism, by all means write it- but the inflamatory and highly contentious charge that "this is the big test" for Open Source is foolish.

In the ten years I've been working with Open Source, I've seen loads of articles saying: if Linux this or that, Apache the other and so on. In all cases the projects survived the particular inflection point (thanks Andy Grove) and in all cases thrived.

Less vapourware please, better journalism.

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