Jason Bassford wrote: > You can't seriously be equating "grassroots" with capitalism, can > you? Grassroots are lots of people on picket lines protesting some > action. Like the Vietnam war. It's a social activity, not one where > where big companies spend money to get something to happen. It's > AGAINST companies like that that grassroot organizations fight, and > protests are mounted. Mozilla is SUPPOSED to be based on a free, open > source, model: by the people, by the people. The fact that it needs > funding is a practical concession to its viability, and inherently at > odds with its expressed philosophy. I suppose that it's at least > refreshing, in some bizarre sense, that you're now openly admitting > that there a few people with the money and power (Netscape) who have > the power to foist a feature on us against our consent. But don't > presume to say that Netscape's "We want this feature, and screw you if > you don't." stance is grassroots - because it's not. It's the > opposite.
Um, that's exactly what he said: > Is the standards system a grassroots system? No. > It's a group of people from various companies (like Netscape) that pay > buckets of money to be part of the select few that get to make the > decisions. -- /Jonas
