Beonex's relationship to Mozilla

[Jesse W]

        Recently, I suggested that a webmaster change eis references 
to Mozilla (as an alternative browser) to Beonex. Out of the ensuing 
discussion on the LUG list he was a part of(which I cc the original 
message to) came this message.
        I think it makes some very sensible points.  I am not able to 
answer the point about how, if Beonex makes changes to Mozilla, it 
can claim to be simply "Mozilla for end-users".  Please read over the 
message, and send your comments.

                                                        Jesse Weinstein

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Date sent:              Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:00:25 +0200
From:                   Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:                     Jesse W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to:              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:                Re: [Lula] Dan Kegal's Linux in Universities:Use of Mozilla

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:05:08PM -0700, Jesse W wrote:
> Yes, _more_or_less_. The Mozilla project appears to be pretty 
> conflicted about how much they want non-developers to download 
> Mozilla.  Although everything you say is true, they also say, """We 
> make binary versions of Mozilla 1.0.1 available <bold>for testing 
> purposes only!</bold> We provide no end user support."""  There 
> are regular arguments on the mozilla newsgroups about Mozilla 
> being used by non-developers.
> The point of Beonex is to circumvent that unease which the Mozilla 
> project has about end users. 

to what end?
beonex is making changes to mozilla (which is fine)
which may introduce new problems which beonex will handle, fine.

however, this makes beonex different from mozilla.
beonex is beonex and NOT mozilla for end users!

you may claim that beonex is better than mozilla for the end user
(because it is simpler or whatever) but you can not claim that
an enduser who wants to use mozilla should use beonex.

beonex is NOT the right answer for the enduser problem
that you describe. the right answer would be to get mozilla
theough your distributor such as debian, redhat or whatever.

they ship mozilla as is, fix bugs and handle enduser reports,

again, beonex is a good idea, it targets new users.
but beonex is not for all endusers.

greetings, martin.
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