On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 06:27:09 -0500 esteemed Greg Miller did hold forth
thusly:
>
> Yet the most important thing is to convince developers to ship
> Mozilla-based browsers. Otherwise, very few users will ever see it.
NS6.x is Mozilla based and Netscape keeps releasing new versions of it.
Netscape has a well known brand name. Well, where's the big flock of NS6.x
users?
> So how do we get a meaningful sample?
Ask some organizations to allow Moz to be installed on their machines. Give
each user a user name and password and URL to go to to submit their user
experience by filling out a short survey that should take just a minute or
two to fill out.
> > If Moz can't pass this standard then its not worth releasing.
>
> Why not?
Moz is already being released as part of Netscape. Its not exactly storming
the markets or attracting critical acclaim.
> Because current contributors like it or find its existence strategically
> useful? This is open source.
Current contributors can use it already without calling it v1.0. The problem
with calling something 1.0 prematurely is that a major release attracts a lot
of people to try it who then get a bad impression and become far less likely
to come back and try it again.
> That's a factor, but suggesting that business strategy and the ability
> to cheaply and quickly develop and maintain products based on it doesn't
> matter is hopelessly naive.
So why does Moz have to come out as v1.0 in order to allow someone else to
develop products on top of it?
