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IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team
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CmdrTaco
on Thu Oct 26, 2006 08:16 AM
from the wish-it-was-a-cheesecake dept.
from the wish-it-was-a-cheesecake dept.
GDI Lord writes "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox team a cake for the release of Firefox 2!
"P.S.: No, it was not poisoned" " That they know of anyway.
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The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.devinmoore.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday May 24, @06:16AM)
Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://ghazan.hazara.org/)
Only to include a file in it for the developers at Redmond.
But the question is... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday February 12 2007, @04:47PM)
Re:But the question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://nucleardog.com/)
Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
*g*
Re:The firefox team was gonna send a cake too... (Score:5, Funny)
itsatrap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:itsatrap (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday May 24, @01:08AM)
Re:itsatrap (Score:5, Funny)
Re:itsatrap (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.chemicalwonderland.net/ | Last Journal: Monday September 03, @10:34PM)
That they know of anyway. (Score:5, Funny)
Or something like that. It's early still.
The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
> of it at everyone and screaming "I'll f***** destroy You!"
Re:EULA under the cake (Score:4, Funny)
By consuming this cake, you agree to the following terms in the cake end user license agreement (EULA)...
Re:The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Browser Wars (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
Would that make it a "civil" war?
What I want to know is... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
Something like they did to Netscape? (Score:5, Interesting)
Pie? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pie? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://loudorangecat.com/)
An improvement from the IE/Netscape days (Score:4, Interesting)
You have to admit (Score:5, Insightful)
I have to say, often times we're prone to think that large organizations such as Microsoft are just a big, faceless entity. As a whole, this may or may not be true, but either way, they're only made up of people. The IE team only wants to ship the best software possible given their resources, as does Mozilla.
The best to both teams -- let the competition continue!
Re:You have to admit (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday January 05 2006, @11:02AM)
Re:You have to admit (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.edholden.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday January 20 2004, @11:15PM)
Good points, but look at it this way: the IE folks owe everything to Firefox. Really. The fact that their offices no longer smell of mothballs is a direct consequence of Firefox's rise. Microsoft was able to keep an open and evolving cross-platform development platform at bay (i.e., the web), but the fact that their strategic product wasn't a profitable product kept development in the dark ages until Firefox came along. IE will always improve (and indeed, will only improve) if it has this competition. As one of the co-creators of Firefox said recently:
IE people should be very glad there's a Firefox, and pray it has staying power. And should keep sending cakes to the Mozillers.
Re:You have to admit (Score:5, Interesting)
The problem with Microsoft is not bad coders. I'm sure they have some, but I bet the percentage is no different from other companies. The problem is when upper management starts making coding decisions based on shareholders' concerns, or when marketing starts making standards decisions and passing them down to coders. One of the friends at MS said that pretty much all the coders he knows would much rather be working with accepted standards instead of hackneyed MS pseudo-standards.
Anyhow, I agree completely that this was a classy move. I would still have some marketing intern taste it before the whole team digs in (lest today be remembered as the day Firefox development froze forever at 2.0!), but I think most in-the-trenches coders would be happy to pat a rival on the back for something cool.
Re:You have to admit (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.kibbee.ca/)
Re:You have to admit (Score:5, Insightful)
The link (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.klaidas.lt/)
Re:The link (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.evanhoffman.com/ | Last Journal: Friday June 09 2006, @08:33AM)
Yum, Cake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yum, Cake (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Yum, Cake (Score:4, Funny)
The FireFox team decided to return the favor and make them a cake to congratulate them on their recent release of Internet Explorer 7. It is expected to be completed in about four years and have some of the same details in the icing that Opera's cake had already.
Re:Yum, Cake (Score:5, Funny)
(http://minion.sourceforge.net/)
Re:Yum, Cake (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.murorum.demon.co.uk/)
The cake itself was pretty acid too.
Of course it wasn't poisoned (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Of course it wasn't poisoned (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.idahoev.com/)
New cake; old ingredients (Score:5, Funny)
It takes time.. Give it another year or two (Score:5, Funny)
Cake, or a free trip to Australia? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cake, or a free trip to Australia? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://paul-mclaughlin.com/)
Happy to have a job again! (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.eggytoast.com/)
giving back (Score:5, Funny)
Re:giving back (Score:5, Funny)
(http://reverend.healeys.net/)
Re:giving back (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.abisource.com/~dom/)
*ducks*
Re:giving back (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I was hoping Firefox 2.0 would bring change. (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.monkeyengines.co.uk/)
I'm always intrigued by these comments. There's barely a time at work when a Firefox window isn't open in the background, I have numerous extensions installed, and having over two dozen tabs open is not particularly unusual for me; however, Firefox has never even come close to using up that much RAM on any machine I've worked on, even when I have that amount of memory to spare. Even the huge pages the new Slashdot comment system produces doesn't raise my RAM usage very far over the 100M mark, and the majority of that is likely caching.
I wonder why Firefox seems to use up so much memory for some people, whilst others get away with relatively little. Did you have any plugins installed that might have been the cause of this problem?
What they didn't tell you... (Score:4, Funny)
Icing on the cake... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday July 07 2005, @09:59AM)
Give Me A Break... (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe It's Just a Gift? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.vgmusic.com/)
Maybe while us users squabble in our own browser war, the development teams actually don't care all that much. Maybe they truly are just glad of how everyone is advancing (as opposed to just trying to one-up each other). I'm not saying that everyone in both companies feel that way, but instead of reading stuff into this surprise present, maybe it was just a good gesture.
Overheard on IRC (Score:4, Funny)
Need more details (Score:5, Funny)
Was there a nice #FF0000 cherry on the top?
Re:Need more details (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft lives out an episode of The Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
Montgomery C. Gates: Look at them stuffing their faces, never knowing they're getting closer to the poisoned part of the cake... There IS poison in the cake, right?
Smithers Balmer: Uh, no sir, our lawyers said that's considered murder.
Montgomery C. Gates: Damn their oily hides!
Big Black E? (Score:5, Funny)
As for the ex-lax, bugs, pubes in the cake of course none of that is true. Those things would only be possible if someone at Microsoft actually made the cake, and that's not how MS does things. They knew they couldn't make a good cake so they just went out and bought a cake from someone who already knew how to make one and then stuck their logo on it and called it theirs.
And being the nerds they are... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 02 2006, @08:42AM)
And being the nerds they are, it was baked into the shape of Counselor Troi [ytmnd.com]. The Firefox nerds, now trendy Galactica fans, merely laughed at the nerds who were so out of it as to still love "Star Trek".
Non-slashdotted picture (Score:5, Informative)
A cake? (Score:5, Funny)
Shouldn't it have been cookies?
Ok, maybe they were afraid they don't accept cookies.
It's only right. . . (Score:3, Insightful)