-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 June 2003 02:20, b-r-i-a-n - wrote: > their operating system. The moral of the story is, get IE while you still > can, or just use Mozilla... :-)
given the state of AOL/Netscape i'm glad we have other Free Software options besides Mozilla. should Microsoft clamp down on IE's availability, and should AOL decide to quietly move Mozilla into the broom closet and forget about the project (starving it from "on high"), we won't be relatively optionless again (remember linux and browsers in 1998?). we'll have modern and robust options such as Konqueror (which was already mentioned by another poster). i'm always wary when a company buys the top end of a project, or when a project is spawned from a company top-down. even if it is Free Software, it isn't nearly robust a model as having a truly distributed project. this doesn't mean corporate involvement is bad, just that it's hard to keep the playing field open and honest when the lead is controlled by a small cabal of companies (or worse yet, a single company). it _can_ work, but it often won't. every time we see a single project in an important space that is funded and controlled (in practical terms) by a single economic interest, we as a community MUST create another leg to stand upon. either by creating a parallel project or by infesting the existing project with enough "free agent" tallent as to influence direction and be able to fork effectively if need be. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2vPX1rcusafx20MRAhV6AJ42WUaeDvIWJQOymjbZHx/PqR5FdwCcCYow VRaSlAxqFruEiltwcR5/AiE= =N3Fa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
