Being a free and an open source web browser helped Mozilla Firefox overcome suspicions!!
If you thought that the Firefox web browsing software application became popular simply because it was offered for free, please think again. The end users of the web browsing software application had been using the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application for years together. The Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application was a free web browser only on paper. The reality was that each and every individual had to purchase the Windows operating system when he or she purchased the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browsing software application. However, despite the fact that the Internet Explorer web browsing software application was not a free web browser, it was successful in capturing the market. This clearly indicated that the end users of the web browsing software applications were ready to pay to make use of the web browsing software application as long as it served their purpose. In such a scenario, the fact that the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application offered the web browser for free generated more suspicion than good will. Why should the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application offer their web browsing software application for free when the end users themselves were ready to pay for the same?
If the claim of the developers of the Firefox web browsing software application is true and the Firefox web browsing software application is a better web browsing software application when compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, then the end users of the Firefox web browsing software application would be ready to pay the developers of Mozilla Firefox for making use of the software application. In such a scenario, why should it be offered for free? These and many such pointed questions were directed at the developers of the Firefox web browser by the critics of the Firefox web browsing software application who wanted to prove that there was something fishy about the Firefox web browsing software application. The developers of the Firefox web browsing software applications successfully countered the propaganda of the critics of the Mozilla Firefox web browser by offering the Firefox web browser as not just a free web browsing software application but also as an open source web browsing software application. The fact that the developers had offered the Firefox web browsing software application as an open source web browser changed everything. While free software applications are viewed with suspicion, free software applications that are open source software applications as well enjoy a lot of popularity. The fact that the Firefox web browsing software application is an open source web browser implies that any and every person who has the ability to understand computer programming languages can read the source code and understand the implications of the various features incorporated into the Firefox web browsing software application. The whole thing became as simple as that.
If you were to apply the concept of free and open source software applications to the example of a stranger offering something to eat, then the stranger would not stop at merely offering the eatable for but would proceed to describe each and every ingredient and the proportion of the ingredients in eatable that is being offered. The individual would also provide for verification of the information that he or she has provided. The person who is offered the eatable would be in a position to determine where the strangers talking the truth or not if he or she has knowledge about cooking. That is exactly what the Firefox web browsing software application has done. It has allowed the suspicions of the end users and has proceeded to remove the same. That did the trick.
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