On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:06, David de Bhál wrote: > > We will, when we have time and funds, address Firefox/Mozillza issues in a > rewrite but when we were writing our stuff in 2001, Mozilla did not have > the capacity to handle the XML in the way we want to. So it is not entirely > our fault. It is not a priority for us until a group of enthusiasts tell us > that they are really interested in our modifying the way we do things and > are prepared to pay their estimates of 6 months use in advance, as a > gesture of good will and their preparedness to use it, all other things > being equal. > > Then of course there is the issue that you would never use it anyway, nor > would all these protagonists because they are more interested in playing > than in excellent software. >
David, maybe an alternative business model would be to TARGET the eccentric fringe: the non IE crowd, playing with our weird operating systems. Maybe this gaggle of fanatics could pay the medical software people well, with the money saved on database machines, commercial antivirus, commercial desktop office suites and commercial Operating Systems. Maybe these fanatics would get all excited and offer help/advice etc. Maybe. jh -- MIKE: Now, "make sure that the door is firmly closed" -- no, we've done that -- right, "fill the tray with powder" -- Powder! What do they mean, "powder"? Gunpowder, curry powder, cocaine? I mean, what's on their minds? NEIL: Maybe they mean washing powder, Mike. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
