<quote who="John Ryland">
> Now would you all stop you belly aching about netscape. It's not as free as
> konqueror and not even in the same league.
Netscape 6.0 is proprietary software based on a Free Software project -
Mozilla.
> Netscape wasn't created open source and it shows.
Netscape 6.0 is a complete rewrite. It was created from the sources of the
browser released by mozilla.org. I'd call that "created open source".
Why does it show? The technologies created or developed for this release are
quite astounding. We have:
* a Free world-class bug tracking system (Bugzilla, needs some work, Free
so we can!)
* a Free world-class web-based code browser (Bonsai)
* a Free highly-compliant (the MOST compliant) web-standards (HTML, CSS,
etc) renderer and embeddable widget (Gecko)
* a Free cross-platform application development system (XPCOM, XUL, NSPR)
* soon to be Free application and server level PKI libraries (PSM and NSS)
Mozilla.org has not "just made a browser" in all this time! My rant is
similar in nature to Jamie's disappointment in people dissing Red Hat. Look
around... You may not use it, but they're making some damn fine software
that will be in use wider and longer than a browser release.
Add to that the goal of MPL/GPLing all the code, and you have a very
forceful argument for the support of Mozilla.org.
> I've heard the code is quite unmaintainable.
Of 4.x or the complete rewrite that is Mozilla?
- Jeff
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