In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
My take is the Mozilla Foundation took a look at this and its reliance on the community and saw a willingness to create a commercial model, and they saw it as the most sustainable way to move forward. It's a way to kick-start adoption of their technologies.
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
The browser has taken on the status of mission critical. You're not going to see many enterprises adopt this (Mozilla) when there is such a sense of gravity around IE,
We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.
The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.
The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public-benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
Some people might speculate that Opera couldn't compete by charging when AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and most other browser developers give away software for free. Not so. Just the opposite is true,
The biggest problem I used to have with Mozilla was crashes, pure and simple. The thing would just lock up and die, (for) no evident reason beyond computer spite.
Mozilla's popularity has gone from almost zero to double digits, so they have had to deal with a lot of sudden attention. Since Mozilla has become popular, people have been looking for more vulnerabilities.
Security hazards are not something that you can offset by using Opera and Mozilla. It's a problem that affects everyone but Internet Explorer is hands down the most targeted because it has the most market share.
The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
With Mozilla, its core essence has been this notion about doing things for free. So in that case, it is a little different because it somewhat changes the DNA the organization was built upon, and it comes back to the recognition that being paid for services is not necessarily a bad thing.
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.
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