Submission + - Mozilla exec claims Apple is hunting open source
Rob writes: Apple chief Steve Jobs expects to do more than lure Internet Explorer users to Apple's
forthcoming version of Safari for Windows — he envisions a duopoly within the browser
market at the expense of FireFox and others, according to Mozilla COO John Lilly. Lilly
pointed to a pie graph representing the browser market that Jobs showed at last week's
Apple developers' conference. The graph was made up with just two browsers: Safari and
Internet Explorer. The graph "betrays the way that Apple, so often looks at the
world," Lilly said. "But make no mistake: this wasn't a careless presentation,
or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing
trick," he said. "Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but
'careless' and 'accidental' do not. This
is, essentially, the way they're thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want
to pick up."