CNET News: Selling Mozilla Through Sex and Religion | Linux Today

CNET News: Selling Mozilla Through Sex and Religion

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2006

“Sex and ego sells, students in a project at Stanford University
have confirmed, but so does religion.

“Students at the Stanford school of design were assigned to come
up with ways to promote Mozilla, the open source competitor to
Internet Explorer. The first group devised a variant of the Mozilla
browser called Faith Browser, said Diego Rodriguez, a professor at
the school and a director at design firm IDEO…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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