● 10.25.07

●● Mozilla ‘Pulls a Novell’, Distributes DRM-riddled Prizes

Posted in Apple, DRM, GNU/Linux, Novell at 11:36 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“We like you so much, so we give you competitors’ products”

Isn’t it troubling when a company which takes prides in open source actually distributes proprietary software products as awards while at the same time ignoring smaller players that thrive in open source? Well, Mozilla is now boasting an Apple Mac to earn this criticism, which is well ‘earned’.

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And you do realize that other manufacturers offer laptops pre-loaded with Firefox and Linux, right?

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Mozilla gives a proprietary, DRM-oriented software and hardware from a company that has it excluded from distribution and had it excluded from market share charts. Didn’t Mozilla slam Apple just a couple of months ago for promoting duopoly? This reminded me of Novell doing the same thing with iPods. I remember this because I criticised them at the time. That was long before the deal with Microsoft and also a time when I advocated SUSE. Bear in mind that Apple not only refused to port iTunes to Linux, but it also tried to block Linux software for iPods about a month ago. To make matters worse, its co-founder slammed open source about a month ago.

Let’s look at the bright side. Novell offered iPods, not Zunes, which were not even out in the market at the time.

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