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lol! Actually, it means they compost them.

[Sorry I copied and pasted from the blog I commented on]

Organic in this context (used by the guy writing the article) is being completely customizeable by the user. The user can modify the source code and or just css, javascript, and html to create extensions.

I think that he has to use the word "organic," because US browser market sees 'free' as something that is not of value.
Us Americans are voracious consumers. We want bang for our buck, so 'free' is perceived to be junk by most Americans.

'Organic' is new to Americans, and it is not as rapidly peceived as junk software.
Good marketing. It's not the best product that sells or the best candidate to win the presidency. It's about the presentation. That sales pitch that entices the buyer. In the end, you have to play mind games to capture the interest of a reader and buyer that has hundreds of other ubiquitous things to capture their attention. That's right, Mozilla must promote the 'Fox in the best way possible.

I would get pretty ***** off if Firefox lost a war to IE, even though I think FF is better than IE.

...what?

It does take care of the garbage.

That's exactly what I thought.

Unfortunately not. Here's my favorite bit:

"For people in the open source movement, Kim, continues, the term 'organic' is a lot clearer and immediately graspable."

Umm... I would be that -nobody- had any clue what they meant when they first said it. In fact, I'd bet everyone had to be -told- what it meant.

Buried for idiocy.

Are you daft? "Organic Software" is *brilliant*. Nobody (statistically speaking) cares about Free Software (if you have to write a missive just to explain what you mean by "Free", you've already lost). Open Source is a bit better, but again explaining what that means, and why something most users don't want (access to the source) is still a benefit to them.

However, Organic Software means the processes involved are more in touch with the nature of computing, it's better for you, the end user in a tangible way. *That's* going to get people to use it.

Additionally, it's much less ideologically tainted. Organic doesn't focus on one aspect (i.e., Freedom or Source), but instead on the "wholesomeness" of the software itself, which encapsulates all of those things.

There could even be various levels of "organic", like:

1. Free (price)
2. Access to the source
3. Based on an open source core (e.g. Safari)
4. Spyware-free
5. Compliant with open standards
6. DRM-free

Seriously, this is brilliant. Remember how "Open Source" made "Free Software" palatable to the corporation? Well, "Organic Software" can do the same for the consumer. Just imagine when talking to an average computer user about Ubuntu, and how you have to explain what "Free Software" and "Open Source Software" means. Now, replace that with, "it's 100% Organic". Already, even if they've never heard of anything about Free, Open Source, or Organic software, they've already got the idea of it being better.

If you can burn a bar code on toast why not have that bar code be an executable.
And before you say "then the storage medium is the only thing that's organic" the software is physically encoded to the toast and as such organic at that time. ( Though the computer running it may not be. )

Organic is one of those funny words with more than one definition...

no.

Hippies?
"Dude, this browser is so organic... totally"
On a side note, it won't stay organic for long if they let it eat IE like that. Who knows where it's been.

Cool! I must neutralize the pollution of a small city.

It's cleaner than playing electric guitar (unless you have solar panels or something)

hahhha thats funny reply...dont think that will happen

it does that after an hour of memory leaking

Basically they said "Free has lost its meaning", and want something like FLOSS here in the US.
So they just picked a word. I am sad they didn't pick "Orgasmic" or "Fluzzy".

sigh. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=organic&x ...

The National Organic Program (run by the USDA) is in charge of the legal definition of organic in the United States and does organic certification.. Not the FDA.