J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Mayayana
writes:
"Jess Fertudei" wrote

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| The 'Mozilla Add-ons Blog' has an update published last night that
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Very informative. Thanks. I don't have any further problems
with 52.9 and I like the old extensions better, but apparently some
extensions are still broken.

This is the first I've heard of
"Studies". It seems the Mozillians just can't resist being as
intrusive and beta-crazed as Microsoft. It reminds me of
the old saying that mothers use: "If Microsoft decided to
jump off a cliff, would you do that, too?!"


It's not quite the same: just by going _onto_ Microsoft's clifftop,
you've accepted that it is riddled with fault lines preloaded with
blasting explosive (some of which _they've_ forgotten about). Looks like
Mozilla going same way ... (-:

I find it hard to say anything witty about the Mozilla project.
I can't visualize what would make me jump in the car in the
morning, and drive to work, and write code for their stuff.

So instead, I decided to read this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsca...ns_Corporation

"In 1998, an informal group called the Mozilla Organization was formed
and largely funded by Netscape (the vast majority of programmers working
on the code were paid by Netscape) to coordinate the development of
Netscape 5 (codenamed "Gromit"), which would be based on the
Communicator source code.

However, the aging Communicator

code proved difficult to work with

and the decision was taken to

scrap Netscape 5 and re-write the source code

The re-written source code was in the form of the Mozilla web browser,
on which, with a few additions, Netscape 6 was based.
"

And here we are today, with a code base which is obviously,
easy to maintain. How ironic is this!

I shouldn't be worried then, about "what they're doing",
what their motivation might be -- instead I should
marvel that "they survived". And that they're still going.

Another thought that crosses my mind, is you'll notice that
a Chinese firm expressed interest in acquiring Opera. Has
anyone ever heard of a company expressing an interest in
buying Mozilla ? :-) Lots of deals happen in the tech world,
where some munchkin "buys high and sells low" and there is a
record writeoff. Why has nobody tried that with Mozilla ?
If Yahoo was worth bidding $40 billion on, shirely Mozilla
must be worth a buck ninety five.

Some law of physics is being violated here. But which one ?

Paul