Randall Parker wrote:
>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?
>
Things are not so simple. What peercentage of corporations switched to
IE2.0, IE3.0 when they were released. It took a lot of arm twisting and
what is not considered illegal activities by a monopolist before that
happened.
>>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.
>
Ehem. What you are suggesting is to use what a closed software
development system does. The open nature of Mozilla's development
provides more than that. Anyone can download the software and provide
feedback at every/any stage. You are assuming that is not happening.
These newsgroups are full of feedback.
>>>If Moz can't pass this standard then its not worth releasing.
>>>
Isn't that what the developers are trying to do? I belive they are
trying to get feedback on the criteria for Moz1.0 release
>
>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.
>
See above. I can pull te source, compile it an call it Webber version 10
if i want, bet we are not talkinmg about Webber10.0. (just like Netscape
releasaed N6.0 based on Moz 0.6). We are talking about Moz1.0 criteria,
not any other company, individual or organization..
>
>So why does Moz have to come out as v1.0 in order to allow someone else to
>develop products on top of it?
>
Exactly. As long as they comply with MPL or NPL anyone can do that.
