Firefox is 'Who's the next open source Idol?'

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: GroundWork Open Source Inc.,  announced that Mozilla’s Firefox was successful in beating out the other three contestants, reigning champion “Tux” the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie” the BSD demon and the GNU “Gnu” to become the world’s favorite Open Source Idol.

During the first ever “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol?” contest held at LinuxWorld 2008 last week, Firefox proved he was the only mascot capable of bringing down the reigning champion – “Tux” the Linux penguin.

After a three day neck and neck race of crazy dancing, bull riding, singing, rapping and polling LinuxWorld attendees, Firefox left third place “Tux” out in the cold, winning with 48.5 percent of the final vote.

The poll of Mozilla's big fan resulted with 48.5 percent votes. Beastie the BSD Demon came in second with 31.6 percent followed by Tux the Linux Penguin with 6.6 percent and The GNU Gnu with 6.6 percent with 2.3 percent votes.

“I was impressed by all the dedicated open source fans out there willing to support their favorite open source mascot,” said Tara Spalding, VP of marketing for GroundWork Open Source. “From dancing the cabbage patch to IT guys doing the worm, the LinuxWorld Idol craze hit the showroom floor.”

“They always say song choice is so important in the final rounds,” said a weary Tux. “I was told to be “current”. Instead of that “Move It, Move It” product placement song, I really should have gone with “Ice Ice Baby”.