> Yeah, pretty much: "You work on the stuff we don't want to, we'll take
> it and bundle it with a bunch of stuff that's proprietary, and you get
> nada. So long, sucker!"
Dude, you don't know what you're talking about. Netscape is the largest
contributor to Mozilla. "You work on the stuff we don't want to"
doesn't make sense.
>
> > I have never had any desire to use AIM, Netscape webmail, or AOL mail.
>
> What about other web-based mail systems? It'd sure be nice to be able
> to hook up to Hotmail or Yahoo mail or Google mail or whatever-mail with
> Mozilla, wouldn't it? Well, I mean if the mail portion actually was in
> working order. What do you think the chances are of such functionality
> being added to Maozilla, Mr. Ballard?
Uh, I don't know, where's the bug you filed about it? I'd say pretty
low, though, we generally try to keep Mozilla non-commercialized where
possible.
> Do you really think AOL is going
> to give their official Politburo stamp of approval on such
> anti-AOL's-bottom-line functionality?
It really doesn't matter, it'd be up to mozilla.org...
> Yep. Because it ain't 100% "Open". It's
> whatever-AOL-decides-to-let-the-suckers-work-on-% "Open".
That's not true at all; you're making broad statements without providing
any support. Contributors to Mozilla can work on whatever they want. I
know because I was one for a year and a half (and still am, just from
Netscape now).
--Blake
