On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Eliran wrote: > >Years later,in 1998, netscape decided to release the source code of the > >netscape communicator. > > Because of the Cathedral & The Bazaar document ?
Actually, yes. > > >They formed a seperate project called mozilla. > >Mozilla produced, among other stuff (stuff like Bugzilla) a browser-suite > >called Mozilla. That browser is generally aimed for developers. Its aim is > >not for end-users. > > Why is that ? I don't see any reason why any end-user won't use the browser. > Or perhaps later they fitted it to the end-user needs ? It is more a matter of finishing touches. For instance, have a look at the bookmark collection that comes with the mozilla distribution. Aso note the "debug" menu item. > > >The browser that Netscape Inc. releases (Netscape Communicator) is > >basically the same browser produced by mozilla, but also includes some > > What does 'the same' means ? Compare mozilla, beonex, Netscape, and the various mozillas of linux distros to Galeon, Skipstone and K-Meleon. > May be related: is there a way to set mailto: in webpages opened with > mozilla will start mutt instead of mozilla's mail client ? Anybody? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
