On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Peter Lairo wrote:
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> This is something i have been wondering too.
>
> I would hate to have put all this effort into Mozilla and then, when
> everything is working great, have some copany come up and say: "we're
> taking this away from you now", or "bgzilla, or whatever structure you
> are using is no longer available".
The code can't be taken away, since it is MPL you can always keep it. So
the actual end result of the work you are doing is pretty safe.
Bugzilla, LXR, Tinderbox, etc... are hosted by AOL and could, therefore,
theoretically, be taken away without notice. However in practice what
would happen is the same as what happened to the Nautlius work when Eazel
shut down -- it was transferred to some other group (the Gnome people in
the case of Eazel) and work continued.
(Don't forget that AOL is not the only contributing company; if AOL
decided to give up working on this project then IBM or RedHat may well be
inclined to do the infrastructure work. Who knows.)
Of course, if AOL stopped working on this project, the biggest loss would
probably be the AOL developers, who are still the largest contributor as
far as code goes.
Not that any of this is particularly likely to happen...
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