On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:06:08 -0700
Rufus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> > Peter Nieman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Wouldn't it make more sense to ship a lean product and tell people
> >> that they can add bloat to it by installing extensions than
> >> shipping a bloated product and telling people that they can get
> >> rid of some of the bloat by installing extensions?
> >
> > Yes.  That was, I seem to recall, the driving force behind the
> > Gecko project : an HTML rendering engine that would fit on
> > a 1.44Mb floppy disc. I wonder whether that desideratum has
> > accidentally been forgotten with the passage of time ...
> 
> ...more like purposely forgotten.

More like never was the driving force.

crossposted, followup set to mozilla.general
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