Firefox 1.5rc3
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Dec 1, 2005 @ 10:17pm |
 Coolness: 339675 | and doing what?
they're not going to charge for FF... so how could they turn evil.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mr_Frog replied on Thu Dec 1, 2005 @ 10:20pm |
 Coolness: 97110 | don't forget that Mozilla is still Netscape aka AOL + Sun Microsystem (at least, backed by), big corporations there :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Dec 1, 2005 @ 10:30pm |
| Coolness: 339675 | Uh, no it's not. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Dec 1, 2005 @ 10:31pm |
| Coolness: 339675 | Netscape can be found here:
[ browser.netscape.com ] Firefox can be found here: [ www.mozilla.com ] Mozilla isn't controlled by AOL.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 12:39am |
 Coolness: 146335 | fortunately enough |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 1:40am |
 Coolness: 92275 | How do you know they won't start charging one day? Don't be fooled by a smile.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 2:11am |
 Coolness: 299335 | well its open source. kinda hard to charge for an open source program |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 2:24am |
| Coolness: 92275 | true, but once they stop updating it other companies can take over and charge you for the good versions, like with linux. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 7:20am |
| Coolness: 339675 | Uhhh... it's.. Open.. Source....
other groups/organizations can suddenly start making their own versions and distributing it.... it's reeaally not that complicated. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 8:05am |
 Coolness: 153065 | "yeah but like... MY COMPANY'S BETTER THAN YOURS! NA!" |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mr_Frog replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 8:44am |
| Coolness: 97110 | Noeform, on what code base do you think Netscape 8 is? Firefox! (while Netscape 6-7 were based on Mozilla)
Mozilla was started by Netscape after Netscape 4.0, they released their source code for the Mozilla Project. Meanwhile, AOL and Sun bought Netscape and kept the Mozilla project. It took almost 4 years to have the 1.0 version of Mozilla. There is some few people that work on Mozilla that are paid by Netscape and others are contributor. Sophia, the license of Mozilla deny to put the software in closed source and not distribute itsource code. Such licenses have been tested in justice! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» trashandsuicide replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 9:37am |
 Coolness: 75280 | *nods his head like he cares* |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 11:00am |
| Coolness: 339675 | Originally posted by MR. FROG...
Noeform, on what code base do you think Netscape 8 is? Firefox! (while Netscape 6-7 were based on Mozilla) Mozilla was started by Netscape after Netscape 4.0, they released their source code for the Mozilla Project. Meanwhile, AOL and Sun bought Netscape and kept the Mozilla project. It took almost 4 years to have the 1.0 version of Mozilla. There is some few people that work on Mozilla that are paid by Netscape and others are contributor. Thanks for clearing that up, I had no idea. Open source means anybody.. wait, no.. ANYBODY can get their hands on the code.. then start making their own version of it. Should the day ever come that firefox become evil.. ANYBODY can come along and continue working on it (with the nicely provided source code) and make a newer/better version of Firefox.. now obviously they would have to rename it.. but the product would still be the same. It's nearly impossible for an open source projected to "go evil", cause if it ever does, people will just make their own versions of it and ignore the evil one. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 3:27pm |
 Coolness: 59690 | Why on earth would Mozilla start to charge for Firefox? There isn't a single browser out there that charges for it's use, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer. If they started to charge for Firefox, I (and many others) would just go back to IE, or Opera, or Netscape. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mr_Frog replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 4:52pm |
| Coolness: 97110 | they won't, don't worry ;) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 8:31pm |
| Coolness: 59690 | Originally posted by MR. FROG...
they won't, don't worry ;) I'm not worried. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 8:37pm |
| Coolness: 92275 | Originally posted by DJNEOFORM...
Uhhh... it's.. Open.. Source.... other groups/organizations can suddenly start making their own versions and distributing it.... it's reeaally not that complicated. thats what i said.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 8:42pm |
| Coolness: 92275 | The only thing open source guarantees is that what's out right know will stay free |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 9:16pm |
| Coolness: 59690 | Originally posted by MOONDANCER...
The only thing open source guarantees is that what's out right know will stay free Ok, you win. Mozilla is going to start charging soon, so we should all stop using it and move to Opera. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Fri Dec 2, 2005 @ 11:39pm |
| Coolness: 92275 | if you say so.. I certainly didn't |
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