Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard RV say these wise
> words:
>
>
>>Maybe Moz developers should have kept the old Milestone numbering
>>system. like Milestone 18, 19, 20,45, 46, etc. and maybe tag a specific
>>one as Stable (Quality) Release. After all Mozilla's target audience are
>> software developers and integrators, not "lay" people.
>>
>
> Why?
Mozilla people have said a million times who their browser primary
target audience is. That is their prerogative yet they are not blocking
us, and athat includes you, from using it so that it can be tested with
a broader audience. So what is the problem? If you want you can pull the
source, compile it and call it Mamazilla if you want. You can use any
milestone you want as the basis for your distro, you decide that, not
them. If you don't like Netscape 6.1, don't use it, use Galeon or some
other Mozilla based browser.
> It's not got all the commercial rubbish that gets thrown into other
> browsers - that makes it, IMHO, extremely attractive to "lay" people who
> don't wan't hype and hoopla, but only want the software that works.
Cut Netscape/AOL some slack. They need to genereate revenues for AOL and
I hope they generate a lot through all the "crap" you say they add to
the browser. The more money they generate for AOL the better the chances
are that AOL keeping funding a big part of Mozilla development. AOL
icon, Net2phone are very easy to uninstall and the links on the peronal
tool bar can be easily removed, so what is the issue there? I don't
consider the RealPlayer 8, Flash plugin, spell checker and IM craps
(BTW, IM is becoming a very highly valuable communication tool among
businesses now a days)
