The truth is that the 1.0 product has really been
killed---spiritually---twice now. It's really more like a 3.0 product
now.
What were the two deaths? The decision to go XP-crazy back a couple of
years ago, and then the mad rash of titanic component replacements a few
months ago.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim McNerney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Randall Parker wrote:
> >
> >>Frankly, I come away from reading this thread wondering why Moz 1.0 is
> >>going
> >>to be released in a few months. The reasons must be political and business
> >>in
> >>nature. From a technical standpoint its hardly ready to go up against the
> >>competition and be favorably compared.
> >>
> >
> > Hear hear. I have the same feelings coming from a standards compliance
> > point of view -- we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
> > us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the rush?
>
>
> What is the rush? I've got to say that is about the funniest thing I've
> read in a while. How can anyone describe trying to release version 1.0
> of a project within 3.5 years of starting it as rushing it? Mozilla
> needs to release version 1.0, not for business reasons, but out of sheer
> pain of having a project running years late. I think the developers,
> more than anything, need to reach that light at the end of the tunnel
> which is the culmination of all their hard work. If you don't release
> something at some point when it is "good enough", you'll never release
> it. And smart money for the last couple years has been on the never
> releasing it side.
>
> --Tim
>
