Firefox swings to the rescue.
The article focuses on Mitchell Baker, trapeze artist and leader of an open-source web browser, who is on a mission to keep the internet free. Firefox seemingly came out of nowhere in November 2004, and has since captured a market share of eight to 10% worldwide almost entirely through word-of-mouth...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 377; no. 8457; pp. 64 - 65 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/17/2005
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