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Mozilla CEO John Lilly on Friday lashed out at Apple for turning its software updating mechanism into a self-serving distribution channel for its Safari Web browser. "What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong," Lilly said in a blog post on Friday. "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." Mozilla makes the Firefox Web browser, which competes with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari. On Tuesday, Apple released Safari 3.1, a new version of its Web browser. It made Safari available for Mac OS X and Windows through its Software Update control panel and as a download from its Web site. What Lilly objects to is the fact that while Safari comes pre-installed on Apple's Macintosh computers, making version 3.1 an update, Apple's browser isn't standard issue on Windows machines. Apple has thus converted a channel previously used for patching existing software into a channel for distributing new software. It's not yet clear whether recent market... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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