On 06/12/2015 15:11, David Bruant wrote:

> Have you signed a contract with Mozilla in which you made sure Mozilla
> could not make moves that would threaten your business? (I assume you
> haven't as I assume Mozilla would not sign such a contract, maybe I'm
> wrong, but you would probably be enforcing the contract instead of
> coming here to discuss)

Hrmpf.

My company - contracting for Lindows/Linspire at that time - started Nvu
at a time XULRunner was must better supported by Mozilla than today.
There were dozens of companies building apps above it. Do you mean they
were all wrong to do it? Do you mean Mozilla never intended to create
an ecosystem? That would be a drastic rewriting of what really happened,
at a time you were not around IIRC.
When I started BlueGriffon, the successor to Nvu, XULRunner was still
_the_ way to embed Gecko into a native app, up to the point it had its
own tinderbox.

> Has Mozilla made general commitments about XUL or other Mozilla-specific
> technologies suggesting it was a reasonable business decision for you ro
> rely so profoundly on Mozilla's decisions? (I don't believe they have)

Ok, this goes far beyond the rational discussion. I was raising an issue
about a clear threat to several businesses of the Mozilla ecosystem,
businesses that have been long-time partners and spread the Mozilla word
all around the world and your words above are inducing clear doubts
about the way these businesses were and are still managed, successfully
for more than a decade. Maybe you should consider a word of apology,
because this is clearly offending.

> As a consequence, it looks like a very dangerous business decision to
> depend on Mozilla's embeddability and support for some proprietary
> technologies.

What I said above.

</Daniel>


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