Jay Garcia wrote:
> Chris Lee wrote:
>
>> I am an end user and I use Mozilla, this makes it an end user product.
>> It may not have been the intention to provide an end user product, but
>> when the mozilla builds work better than the 'customizers' versions
>> end users go to the better product.
>> Without endusers usiong it the end user perspective will never make it
>> back to the Mozilla project and user-unfriendly 'buggs' will remain
>> such as the mail Icon, if a user-unfriendly product is what the
>> Mozilla team is after then I dont think it would have got this far.
>>
>> Holger Metzger wrote:
>>
>>> Jacek Piskozub schrieb:
>>>
>>>> We lobby for thet since this winter. There was a string of bugs
>>>> about that closed without a real fix (the means for inserting the
>>>> icons were added but not the icons). No luck in coosing a set of
>>>> icons so far. It is not easy to say what the real reason is.
>>>> Probably some conflicts among Mozilla old timers (maybe we stepped
>>>> on someone's toes?).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Might it be because Mozilla will never be a "enduser" product? So
>>> providing icons is totally up to customizers like Netscape? The Netscape
>>> 6.1 icons surely look nice.
>>>
>>>
>>> Holger
>>>
>>
>
> No, it is NOT an end-user product.
>
> The fact that Mozilla is "open source" simply means that the Mozilla
> team has left the door to the office OPEN so you can come in and have a
> look. By comparison, the Netscape 6 door is closed and you only get to
> see the product when they open the door and toss out a package for you
> to open and use what's inside.
>
>
Sorry I don't agree with that. Lot of Linux distribution do or will
include Mozilla as standard browser. Now already a lot of "end users"
that have no idea about programming use Mozilla (like me). Actually
Mozilla is really close from a nice "end user" version, only missing a
spell checker, a few icons and some polishing and less bugs. And voil�
you have a GREAT end user software that can have a lot of success in the
long run.
Now if Netscape is not happy with that and delibaretly tries to NOT make
Mozilla an end user product (like to disable compatibility with the
spell checker) this is sad.
To gain success and popularity Morilla have to be an end user browser
and Netscape should be proud of it.
Ciao
Colin
