Mozilla Vs Apple – The war of the Virtual Worlds?

Things seem to be heating up now ever since the launch of Apple’s Safari V 3.1. Mozilla seems to be at logger heads with Apple when it apparently set off a war of sorts when Mozilla’s chief had stated that “Apple coerces people to download software that isn’t really required”. I don’t know where that one came from since, as far I know almost every other software (including Mozilla’s Firefox) feeds on other software to render its applicability.

An excerpt from the site www.nzherald.co.nz goes like this

Mozilla CEO John Lilly has blasted Apple for including the Safari browser for Windows in its software update.
He says it tricks Windows users into downloading the new browser by bundling it with updates for iTunes and QuickTime.

Here’s more of it, from the same source:

“What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong,” said Lilly in his blog.
“It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad - not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole web.”

Is this a harbinger of things to come? Are Mozilla and Apple going to be in the ring wrestling each other out with the other big wigs like Opera and the all-mighty Internet Explorer joining in later? In my opinion – this is a non-issue being made into a raging tornado.

I second the opinion of one of the commentators there which goes like this:

“This is the biggest NON-ISSUE yet &45; and anyone using a computer that can’t use that screen and make a good decision should go back to a typewriter.”

I would say we should leave it to the users to decide who’s who and what’s what!