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06-17-2008, 08:16 PM
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linu...at-for-mozilla  Quote: The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla
By Ryan Paul | Published: June 17, 2008 - 07:14PM CT
In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue "e" icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.
The cake congratulates Mozilla on shipping Firefox 3 and expresses love from the IE team. Microsoft's IE developers also sent a cake to Mozilla in 2006 following the release of Firefox 2, so this is clearly becoming a tradition.
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06-17-2008, 08:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Cute, underhanded, but thoughtful. I like the sentiment.
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06-17-2008, 08:26 PM
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06-17-2008, 08:34 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | How odd. I'm not sure how to interpret it. |
06-17-2008, 08:41 PM
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06-17-2008, 09:59 PM
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06-17-2008, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by CamMcIntyre  The cake was made with laxatives....it's a form of revenge. | agreed
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06-18-2008, 01:09 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | I bet that cake is buggy as all hell. |
06-18-2008, 01:56 AM
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06-18-2008, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperDuck How odd. I'm not sure how to interpret it. | yeah, seems kinda fishy...
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06-18-2008, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by playinpearls yeah, seems kinda fishy... | I just read this on Wikipedia. Even though MS probably isn't their biggest fan, maybe the IE team and the FF crew can get along... Quote:
Despite the cold reception from Microsoft's top management, the Internet Explorer development maintains a relationship with Mozilla. They meet regularly to discuss web standards such as extended validation certificates.[140] In 2005 Mozilla agreed to allow Microsoft to use its Web feed logo in the interest of common graphical representation of the Web feeds feature.[141]
In August 2006, Microsoft offered to help Mozilla integrate Firefox with the then-forthcoming Windows Vista,[142] which Mozilla accepted.[143]
In October 2006, as congratulations for a successful ship of Firefox 2, the Internet Explorer 7 development team sent a cake to Mozilla.[144][145] As a nod to the browser wars, some readers joked about the cake being poisoned, while others jokingly suggested that Mozilla send a cake back along with the recipe, in reference to the open-source software movement.[146] The IE development team sent another cake on June 17, 2008, upon the successful release of Firefox 3.[147]
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