JTK wrote:
> Blake Ross wrote:
>
>>>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.
>>
>
> I know all too well of what I speak.
Not really. Actually, I'm quite amazed that you managed to double click
an icon and write this message.
>
>
>> Netscape is the largest
>>contributor to Mozilla. "You work on the stuff we don't want to"
>>doesn't make sense.
>>
>>
>
> No it doesn't, that's why it didn't really work out as Netscape had
> planned, and why they're ending up having to do most of the work
> themselves.
O...k... I don't know where to start with this one. Netscape pays
employees to program. Those employees work because they are paid to.
Mozilla's other contributers are not paid. They program because they
know how to and like to help.
>>we generally try to keep Mozilla non-commercialized where
>>possible.
>>
>>
>
> Heheheyeah. What's commercial about hooking up to a web email service
> any moreso than to a POP3 one?
POP3 is not owned by any one person or company. POP3 servers are
typically paid for by the user paying their ISP bill, or paying for the
mailbox in some way. Web email, on the other hand, is paid for by
banner ads, mostly. Hotmail probably makes more on selling their user
lists than banner ads, but they are an exception. If someone writes a
client that can take someone's mail from a web service and bypass their
revenue stream, they don't like or allow it.
>
>
>>>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...
>>
>>
>
> And who's running mozilla.org?
It ain't Netscape corp or AOL
>
> Hello?
>
> Hellooooooo?
>
>
>>>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.
>>
>
>
> Perhaps an AIM-compatible IM client? Yeah, didn't think so.
AIM uses a proprietary standard for communications. No one other than
AOL is allowed to use it to connect with AIM users if AOL doesn't want
them to. Not Mozilla's open source equivilant, not Microsoft, no one.
