# Mozilla Buys Internet Explorer **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000 "2006-03-31T21:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![imbuez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/imbuez/32/645_2.png) [@imbuez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imbuez)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/1 "2006-03-31T21:13:12Z")
News just in, the Mozilla Foundation has bought Internet Explorer. [http://www.farstyle.com/web\_design/mozilla\_buys\_internet\_explorer/](http://www.farstyle.com/web_design/mozilla_buys_internet_explorer/) lol. For 2 moments of stupidity i believed this … made me chukle. APRILS FOOLS come early!!! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/2 "2006-03-31T21:44:14Z")
:lol: That’d be cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/3 "2006-03-31T21:59:34Z")
That would be cool then 4 minutes later… Mozilla has burned down IE’s building and released a patch that will remove it from all computers. ---
**Author:** ![Butters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Butters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Butters)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/4 "2006-03-31T23:19:22Z")
lol If only… ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/5 "2006-03-31T23:53:03Z")
:lol: @ temp ---
**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/6 "2006-04-01T00:04:41Z")
even if it were true, they’d have to go through Microsoft to buy ie, and they can’t anyways… to create a drastic effect, please move this thread to tech-news. ---
**Author:** ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/7 "2006-04-01T00:23:21Z")
A little premature on the april fools:P ---
**Author:** ![thoriphes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/8 "2006-04-01T00:52:33Z")
[size=1][color=white]Opera is the true bastard child of Firefox and IE. Don’t tell Linus…[/color][/size] ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/9 "2006-04-01T03:05:33Z")
> [@thoriphes](#): > > [size=1][color=white]Opera is the true bastard child of Firefox and IE. Don’t tell Linus…[/color][/size] You mean IE and Firefox are the true bastards of Opera 😛 Opera came in first for everything. [whisper]what’s with the white?[/whisper] ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mozilla-buys-internet-explorer/184000/10 "2006-04-01T07:38:49Z")
lol @ thor