>As a counter-argument, look around you... Do you see any useful,
>stable, open source browsers available? Amaya? It's a castoff. Lynx?
>Nice at the terminal, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. Communicator?
>We've been saddled with that lopsided horse long enough. Mozilla?
>Maybe someday. What happened to Mnemonic? It was supposed to be the
>"killer browser", but faded into oblivion about 6 months prior to the
>Mozilla announcement.
I don't see how that's a counter argument at all. No, I don't see any stable
OS browsers around. But I don't see Opera for Linux either. And I don't see
how we can anticipate that it'll be stable anytime soon if they just fired
the development team.
>Face it, the open source community just doesn't find browsers "sexy" to
>create.
Well, they better change their minds on that one. It's where Linux looses
the game if the only browser that's useful is IE. Picture all those Linux
boxes merrily running IE on VMWare. Still filling Gates' pockets. Still
dealing with his crashy OS. Probably buying VMWare from him too as soon as
M$ buys them out...
>
>I'm not any happier about the prospect for Opera. It's been 2 years
>since their initial announcement and it's STILL vaporware. Maybe Opera
>has a nice plan to just wait out the competition...
Uh huh. "Hey, guys, nice browser. It's stable, user-friendly, lightweight,
and the Linux folks will love it. Now, lets just bide our time and not
release it." I think a more realistic scenario is that it's chaos down at
Opera-central, the entrire development team hits the road, and the bigwigs
want to GET IT RELEASED so they can buy their kids a bunch of freakin'
Pokemon crap for Christmas. The only reason Opera is looked upon so fondly
is that it isn't out yet. It's similar to how many mountains of gold the
white guys figured was laying around the New World...until they got here...
I'd encourage anyone who can write documentation or code to point your
browser at mozilla.org and see if you can help. Sexy or not, the browser is
the most important app on the desktop computer today, and Linux doesn't have
one.
Gregg
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>Steve Philp
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>Advance Packaging Corporation
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