Peter Lairo wrote:
> If AOL is the biggest contributer on a project that is beneficial to
> the whole world (MPL & standards conform), then something is wrong.
> Why isn't there a higher proportion of "idealist" programmers and
> other companies contributing?
First, there are a lot of other companies contributing; if you read the
Mozilla newsgroups on a regular basis, you can find people "officially"
contributing (i.e., as part of their job) from Sun, IBM, Red Hat, and so
on, just to mention some more well-known companies.
Second, there have been a lot of people who have made significant
volunteer contributions to Mozilla. (As Ian Hickson notes, many of those
people's contributions were so significant that they were subsequently
hired by AOL Time Warner, and thus we tend to forget they were
originally non-AOL volunteers.)
Finally, there are a lot of worthy open source and free software
projects in the world. By its nature the Mozilla project is not going to
attract just any "idealist" programmer, it's going to attract primarily
programmers who are specifically interested in web browsers and
related Internet client software. I wouldn't encourage anyone to work on
Mozilla _just_ for reasons of idealism; people should find projects
where their idealism intersects with their other interests.
> Maybe a web page with a "quick overview" and "quick instrctions" (and
> an "easy2fix" keyword) wouldn't be such a bad idea ;)
See
http://www.mozilla.org/get-involved.html
Note that this is linked to from the main menu on the mozilla.org home
page, as well as from various other places.
Frank
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