JTK wrote:
> Garth Wallace wrote:
>
>>"JTK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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>>>What I find rather odd is that while many here cry
>>>"Mozilla isn't for users!", Netscape 6.x, which is no more than Mozilla
>>>with an AOL sticker on it, is supposed to be the "Mozila for end users".
>>>
>>Evidently JTK hasn't discovered an interesting
>>linguistic property known as "context".
>>
>>The builds provided by Mozilla are not intended
>>for end-users. The code produced by the Mozilla
>>project is not written for immediate consumption
>>by end users. However, it is written with the
>>understanding that other groups will package it
>>for use by end-users.
>>
>
> And that packaging in the case of AOL is a sticker that says "Netscape"
> overtop the one that says "Mozilla". What context did I miss there?
>
You didn't miss context. You mischaracterizded Netscape packaging. You
missed the additional functionality they add, the marketing they put
behind it, the phone support and any number of other things that a
vendor might do to make their distro more appealing than the next.
Beonex Communicator is another distribution which is very close to
Mozilla in appearance and functionality but with tweaks to some privacy
options, Beonex branding and user support.
This really big thing was making the news a few years back, maybe you
heard about it. It was called Linux. Several well funded vendors were
packaging up distributions of the linux kernal and GNU software in nice
boxes and providing additional functionality, documentation, marketing
and support to end users. They took something that wasn't very
digestible by large numbers of users and made it a bit easier. The Linux
kernel isn't an end user product but RedHat 7.1 is. It's not a very
difficult concept.
--Asa
