Números arredondados e não oficiais indicam que o numero de downloads será pouco mais de 8 milhões.

Uma estratégia de marketing excelente, com resultados provavelmente acima das expectativas. Muita publicidade gratuita, o market share (cerca de 3 %) a subir e com isso, o valor da empresa. Estes são os resultados do Firefox 3 Download Day.

Os números oficiais anda vão ser analisados pelos senhores do guiness e para além de tudo o conseguido até agora, este recorde deve sair no livro dos recordes anuais do guiness

Pelo numero de downloads registados até a data deste post, os 10 milhões vão ser atingidos antes de fazer 48 horas…

1. SteveBallmer
   12:57 on Junho 23rd, 2008

   Just Say NO to FirePox!
   The Mothzilla people have brought FirePox 3 out of it’s beta cocoon after oh so long! Millions download it in the first few hours! What’s the very first thing that happens to it? It’s hacked! Well so much for SBS “Standards Based Software”!

   THE PROBLEM WITH SBS!

   In a nice fantasy world where every one loves each other, where pixies fly, where we all just share and get along, SBS rules. BUT, we don’t live there! The Open-sourcers, SBS crowd, moonies, lunnies, iTards, Alien-Mothershipers and Linux people will just have to face the truth one day!

   THE TRUTH: Hackers love “open” standards! Everyone can have this stuff, it’s free, free to have and free to manipulate, free to corrupt!

   What the world really needs is proprietary systems and software and standards! The kind of stuff that a hacker will have to take years trying to figure out the source to! Then when they do get close we change it all up on them, frustrate them, force everybody to upgrade or be left behind! Every company will have their own way of doing things as they see fit! Isn’t that really what true freedom is all about? Doing things your way! Not being told by others that you have to “share”, to play well with others, to make the intellectual property which you have slaved over “open and accessible” to anybody who comes along!

   C’mon people! If you want to see MY pictures, shouldn’t you have to user MY viewer? Isn’t that truly basic fairness, equity and just plain decency? What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours! It’s only “ours” if you pay for it!

   All of these freeloaders are really getting on my nerves! I prefer to pay my way! I like buying or renting, not living in some God-forsaken “free and open” hell hole with no doors or windows!

   Sorry, but I get passionate about this stuff!
   I am not evil

2. João Matos
   13:15 on Junho 23rd, 2008

   hum.. gess you choose the wrong place for your passion…

   we think that free software software it’s better than the closed one not, just because of being open source, it’s also because of freedom.

   but being open it’s better. do you like to walk on the dark somewhere you don’t know where you are? and do you trust in such thinks you cannot know cause you can’t really see it? and you trust the one’s that made it and in fact didn’t trust you?

   we don’t!