Joseph N. wrote:
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> Why retain the mail and news components of Mozilla? To the degree
> that the Internet is increasingly a part of our daily lives, the
> triad of browser, mail, and newsreader are insufficient to interact
> with the resources on the 'net. Word processors, information
> manipulation programs (db's and spreadsheets), peer-to-peer programs
> like Groove, which enable more than just chat, and other programs are
> now enabled and necessary to exploit some of the benefits of the web.
> As a result, the vision of one program doing it all is no longer
> valid (except arguably the way that Lotus Notes integrates various
> enterprise functions). Additionally, there are other email clients
> and other newsreaders more powerful than Mozilla's. So that leaves
> the idea of convenience, just give the public something less than
> optimum so it's in one handy package. There's no doubt that that's
> the direction that MS and NS are both going. But that does not seem
> to be consistent with the quality and integrity of Mozilla. So,
> what's the rationale?
I'm not a developer, so this is just my opinion. I like having the
mail, news, and browser together. Often I get mail with html links in
it that i'd like to check out. Some newsgroups have URL's too
sometimes. Some of the other email clients I find not so easy to
understand or they aren't GUI clients, and I know of very few of them
that you can click on a link and start a browser. I'm using Linux by
the way. Yes there are other programs for various functions, like XMMS
to play MP3 files for example, that don't neccessarily have to be
integrated with the browser, but some of them, like XMMS, can be made to
work from the browser if you want them to. Linux does have many email
clients, newsreaders, and even other browsers to choose from, but I like
having one program that handles most of what I do on the internet each
day.
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