Re: Mozilla is not an end user application--huh?

[Justin H.]

Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
> >>>You just described 90% of open source software.  Is that not end-user
> >>>software also?
> >>>
> >>No. The e.g. version packaged (and, often, patched) by Red Hat for which
> >>people pay $39.95 is end user software.
> >
> > But what about all the OS software we don't pay for? (AAMOF I get RH for
> > free also through download)
> 
> Maybe this is a confusion about the term "end-user software". When I say
> "Mozilla is not end-user software", what I mean is:
> 
> - It's not supported in any way
> - No, really. It's not supported
> - No part of it is guaranteed to work
> - It may crash regularly
> - It may corrupt your data
> - It may molest your cat
> - It may mail your tax evasion schemes to the IRS.

As I recall, years ago, when you clicked on the download link for the
mozilla binaries, several alert boxes popped up in succession that said
almost exactly the same thing.

Justin H.
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