On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Kevin T. Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:43:26PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > If OSS doesn't view itself as professional as commercial stuff, then it's > > guaranteed to fail in the long run. Look at the success stories of OSS; > > Firefox, Apache, Linux, OOo, and so on. They aren't based around the > > Oh really? I started using Mozilla 0.5 or so, shortly after they split the > code from Netscape. There were a number of problems with all compenents > (back before the Firefox-Thunderbird split) and submitted and voted for > numerous bugs, reallocating my votes after certain bugs were fixed. > > I would posit that Firefox is a better product specifically *because* of > all the bug submissions. My point there was that Mozilla/FF always considered itself to be professional, no matter how open the code is. Did anyone from the Mozilla team/foundation say "meh, it's my browser, I like it this way. Go write your own." Besides, a typical install installs not only Firefox but the crash reporter... so, it nicely sidesteps the issue we are discussing anyway.
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