Re: About minimum platform requirements.

[Asa Dotzler]

Duke Ellington wrote:

> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Asa Dotzler say these
> 
> wise words: 
 >

>> I'll let you go over to ActiveState and tell them that they should scrap
>> their Mozilla based cross-platform, multi-language Integrated 
>> Development Environment (IDE) which supports Perl, Python, and 
>> JavaScript development on Windows, Linux, and Unix, because Mozilla is 
>> just an application for viewing websites.
> 
> Perhaps if all that work went into producing the fundamentals of the 
> Mozilla Browser / email client / Newsgroup Reader, then Mozilla would be a 
> considerably more complete browser!

I'm not a legal expert but I don't believe the MPL or NPL require that 
consumers of the mozilla code build only browsers. Nor do I believe that 
ActiveState was interested in building a browser.

--Asa