Thanks Bob Your point about plan B is well taken. I will stick with Composer.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Miller Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:42 PM To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list Subject: Re: [eug-lug]OK, Ken I'll take that challenge BAGGAB wrote: > Mozilla's development is really driven by the 100 or so full time > programmers at Mozilla who get their paycheck from AOL. I don't want to > slight the many other programmers who make contributions and the users who > help debug it, but its the full timers who drive the bus. I feel that AOL > is only interested in its stock position and now that it has decided to use > IE it will jettison Mozilla. AOL has changed its default browser four or five times since the web came about. There's no reason to assume this is the last time they'll change. Also, as Larry said, AOL's executives are well aware that Microsoft is an untrustworthy ally, and they're safer with a Plan B. Mozilla is a good Plan B, and well worth 100 engineers' salaries. OTOH, if their settlement with MS *requires* them to stop supporting Mozilla, the project could be in trouble. > P.S. just when I was going to start using Composer's WYSIWYG web designing > capabilities. I'll probably just limp along with it till something (OSS) > better comes along. Use Composer. It's a good tool, and you have it today. You'll have it tomorrow too, IMHO. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
