Blake Ross wrote:
>
> > Yeah, pretty much: "You work on the stuff we don't want to, we'll take
> > it and bundle it with a bunch of stuff that's proprietary, and you get
> > nada. So long, sucker!"
>
> Dude, you don't know what you're talking about.
I know all too well of what I speak.
> Netscape is the largest
> contributor to Mozilla. "You work on the stuff we don't want to"
> doesn't make sense.
>
No it doesn't, that's why it didn't really work out as Netscape had
planned, and why they're ending up having to do most of the work
themselves.
> >
> > > I have never had any desire to use AIM, Netscape webmail, or AOL mail.
> >
> > What about other web-based mail systems? It'd sure be nice to be able
> > to hook up to Hotmail or Yahoo mail or Google mail or whatever-mail with
> > Mozilla, wouldn't it? Well, I mean if the mail portion actually was in
> > working order. What do you think the chances are of such functionality
> > being added to Maozilla, Mr. Ballard?
>
> Uh, I don't know, where's the bug you filed about it? I'd say pretty
> low, though,
Exactly.
> we generally try to keep Mozilla non-commercialized where
> possible.
>
Heheheyeah. What's commercial about hooking up to a web email service
any moreso than to a POP3 one?
> > Do you really think AOL is going
> > to give their official Politburo stamp of approval on such
> > anti-AOL's-bottom-line functionality?
>
> It really doesn't matter, it'd be up to mozilla.org...
>
And who's running mozilla.org?
Hello?
Hellooooooo?
> > Yep. Because it ain't 100% "Open". It's
> > whatever-AOL-decides-to-let-the-suckers-work-on-% "Open".
>
> That's not true at all; you're making broad statements without providing
> any support. Contributors to Mozilla can work on whatever they want.
Perhaps an AIM-compatible IM client? Yeah, didn't think so.
> I
> know because I was one for a year and a half (and still am, just from
> Netscape now).
>
One of the Body.
> --Blake
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