Robert Kaiser wrote:
Ruediger Lahl schrieb:
*Ray_Net* wrote:
The search deal between Google and Mozilla which provided funding for
Mozilla has EXPIRED and is NOT BEING RENEWED. A new search deal has
been
stuck with Yahoo. Will the Yahoo search deal provide enough long term
funding for Mozilla to keep development going. My fear is that the new
deal with Yahoo means the slow demise of SeaMonkey (and Firefox).
Their is not only one (US-)deal with Yahoo. Russia gets Yandex, China
gets Baidu and Germany stays with Google. They all pay.
Google doesn't pay anything any more, no matter if Firefox still
defaults to them somewhere or not.
That said, 1) there is no money shortage for Firefox, 2) SeaMonkey
doesn't get any of that money, 3) let's better talk about which people
can contribute to SeaMonkey in what fashion, that's more productive.
But.. SeaMonkey is downstream from Gecko - so it depends on that money.
But if that money is in good supply, the question is irrelevant.
But, perhaps, more relevant questions:
- how much code is unique to SeaMonkey (vs. basic glue to combine Gecko,
and the Thunderbird mail code into one package)?
- how much work is involved in maintaining the unique code?
- how much work is involved in dealing with upstream changes?
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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