At 20:02 03/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>I hope Simon's answer and the post that started it, was Tongue in Cheek.
No I don't think so.
>But.... That's what I i knew all along. Evidently they don't get it.
>
>Who are you developing it For.
>
>Simon, and Asa yo use. I don't think so.
>
>It industry Hp, Netscape, Microsoft (well that's a stretch) Sun.
>Macromedia, Sony, JVC,
>
>amd for John and Jane Smith and their equivelents.
>
>In other word "END USERS". If not then you had better pack up your Bags
>and Go home.
If I make a build for distribution then yes I'm interested in the target
market, that's the whole point of making the distribution. mozilla.org's
market largely includes those making distributions and not individual end
users. Because the UI (and most of the arguments are over UI), behaves in
one way on the mozilla.org reference build is no reason for it not to
behave differently on a different distribution, whether that's Netscape,
Nokia or whomever. Beonex.org's distribution aims to be as close to
mozilla.org as possible but be packaged for the end user. Beonex.com
though, might very well develop a distribution for an entirely different
market or corporate client and have significantly different features.
>The "Prime Directive" (Star Trek terminology) of Mozilla is to make a
>Killer application to Bury Internet Explorer/Outlook Express so well
>that MicroSoft will discontinue it. And Put Mozilla/Netscape as the A-1
>Prime WEb Browser/Email Client on the planet.
I don't think that's anywhere stated as an objective for mozilla.org or
anything like it. In fact its part of the problem that some think that
that is the aim.
>The prime concern of anyone not working for Microsoft should be work for
>there demise or at least reduce their importance in the realm of things.
Err no. Microsoft aren't an enemy, so far as I know they don't eat babies
and I really don't care how successful they are.
>Do we realize Mr Gares could buy the entire USA and have money left over.
No Gates couldn't, though if he did Shrub might have to pick up the Kyoto
Accord again :-)
Simon
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