John Welch wrote:
>
> If the only feedback on bugs comes from Mozilla, and Netscape is saying that
> NS6 is Mozilla with some AOL-ish features, and the only useful bug info
> comes from Mozilla, and Netscape's attitude is, we'll foist it off on
> Mozilla, guess what you are telling corporate America?
>
> Netscape will do nothing that doesn't come from Mozilla, ergo, any problems
> are Mozilla's fault, because Netscape isn't taking any responsibility for
> their own product other than Branding.
All of this makes sense until you realize that 90% (possibly lower,
these days, but still high) of the developers working on Mozilla are
Netscape engineers being paid to do so by Netscape.
Thus if you want LDAP, you have a few options:
1) Persuade Netscape to let these Netscape engineers write it for
Mozilla. Just because it's in Mozilla doesn't mean a Netscape person
didn't write it - most of Mozilla was written by Netscape people,
although this is gradually changing.
2) Persuade someone who is not a Netscape engineer to write it for
Mozilla. This will be tough, because most of these people are volunteers
who write for mozilla because they want to. NOTE: this *will not* work
for people paid by Netscape. There are Netscape engineers who would love
to write this, but Netscape pays their salaries, so Netscape says what
they do. To change their minds, you have to persuade Netscape.
3) Pay some money to Beonex, who are collecting a pool to fund someone
to do it.
4) Write it yourself.
None of these purposes are served by bitching in Mozilla newsgroups.
Netscape management don't read them (if they did, they'd have been
persuaded already 3 times over I think) and their programmers don't have
the choice; volunteer programmers aren't going to be persuaded by any
amount of bitching.
Stuart.
