On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > > So, I don't know what "monoculture" you're referring to. > Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. > (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that konqueror statistics are > not significant since it's also used as a file manager.) It's certainly significant as a web browser, just hard to get meaningful statistics about it from popcon. You missed epiphany though, unless you're really talking about a Gecko monoculture. name inst vote old recent no-files iceweasel 41897 22448 6839 12600 10 epiphany-browser 32506 11395 7614 13493 4 w3m 53921 6902 30282 16735 2 konqueror 15175 5983 5437 3754 1 lynx 14852 5558 7840 1451 3 iceape-browser 4802 1974 1706 1122 0 dillo 1810 519 1015 275 1 w3m-img 721 0 0 0 721 > If that's not a monoculture, I don't know what is. Depends on whether you define monoculture as only one strain, or as a preponderance of one strain. The problem with the former is that if you have a problem that wipes out that strain, you don't have any alternatives that can take over. In the latter case, you do have alternatives, it's just that it's going to involve a lot of growth on their behalf to do the taking over, which is still hard, but much easier. Old link: http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2004/05/11 Cheers, aj
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