Ben Bucksch wrote: > Peter Trudelle wrote: > >> It does distribute software in binary form to end users > > > No. "We make binary versions of of Mozilla available for testing > purposes only!" is quite clear to me. End users are not involved in > debugging software, they just want it to work. > > Maybe Asa's MozillaZine post > <http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1745&message=9#9> > (commenting on Beonex vs. Mozilla) helps interpret the statements even > more.
Asa is entitled to his opinion, as are you; I'm keeping mine. I interpret mozilla.org's position as being that the purpose they release binaries for (i.e., their motivation) is testing, not that they restrict usage to testing as you seem to imply. I think their disclaimer is made simply to discourage naive users who might expect packaging, distribution, support, etc., none of which Mozilla.org is currently in a position to supply. This is all nit-picking on my main point though, which is that 90% or more of what we build as mozilla is what end users of most distributions experience, so we are building these apps for end users. To the extent we ignore this, we make distribution more difficult, and thus restrict mozilla's reach. IMO, we should be building mozilla as the blindingly fast, small and stable core browser anyone would want, not narrowly targetted at a tiny geek market, as some mozillians would seem to prefer. Peter
