> There is not really very much difference between Netscape and Mozilla
> beyond pretty packaging and marketroid cruft.  So developers of Mozilla
> need to have a focus on the most important element to the end users of
> these distributions, or the distributions will fail. 

IMO, end-user-software developers should be soliciting feedback from those
end-users and presenting it to mozilla.org. This is a concept that is
known as "second-level support" (with Netscape, Beonex etc. being the
first level.) mozilla.org, and the engineers (a lot of whom work for, and
have their priorities set by first-level organisations anyway) will then
react accordingly.

There's a difference between "Mozilla is not *for* end-users" (my original
statement) and "Mozilla should not be written with end-users in mind",
which is a different thing, indefensible and not something I'm arguing
for!

Gerv

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