On the surface, nothing could be remotely true about this:
“The Firefox executives say they don’t want to be bundled with Windows. Firefox architect Mike Conner also said this of Opera, ‘Opera’s asserting something that’s provably false. It’s asserting that bundling leads to market share. I don’t know how you can make the claim with a straight face. As people become aware there’s an alternative, you don’t end up in that [monopoly] situation. You have to be perceptibly better [than Internet Explorer].’
However, let’s assume these guys are much savvier about marketing than they appear to be. The issue with getting bundled by Microsoft is that you give into (and get addicted to) the scale of their distribution. Sounds like Firefox is saying no thanks to that. I guess they have the luxury of turning down these big deals since the org is not all about money…
