Comments on: Meet Mozilla Corp

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:09:38 +0000

Tragic events such as these are the reason I tend to use out-of-date software.

Windows XP + Kazaa Lite K++ + lots of downloads = hard drive light that didn’t even blink. That’s when I knew there was something dreadfully wrong with the way XP works with hardware. Intentionally slowing things down, apparently. Revert to the little box with Windows 2000 in it, and all of a sudden, the light blinks again and download speeds skyrocket, for no apparent reason.

Internet Explorer + malware assault + ActiveX crap + Outlook Express virii = jump to Mozilla products and leave the bugs behind.

Mozilla + for-profit future roadmap = Firefox 1.0.6 will be on every Windows system I use from now to eternity, until a better freebie appears.

I’m waiting for Windows 2000 support to run out. Then I’ll make a Linux distro that’s not confusing for myself and never use any of the for-profit bull again.

I still run Windows 98 on my Pentium III/700 laptop.

I still use a 486 laptop for stuff.

Fuck corporate idiots.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:03:21 +0000

Can you say “Underpants Gnomes?”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:46:17 +0000

re: step 1 – thousands of volunteers made Firefox what is it.
re: step 2 – word-of-mouth is what gave Firefox the market share it now has. All mozilla foundation could do is a cheezy 2 page ad in the New York Times, 1 time deal. whoopee. not exactly marketing wizards.
re: step 3 to 5 – this is where Mozilla now turns its back on its source, and tries to cash in on the success. There are 40 employess in Mozilla Foundation, so all da cash goes to them, and its their discretion where to allocate it. If they wanted to be fair, go make a public company, and allocate shares to everyone who contributed to the project.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 04:15:22 +0000

Step 1: Make something interesting
Step 2: Spread the word about your interesting thing
Step 3: Figure out a way to collect the profits
Step 4: … ?
Step 5: Profits

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:49:52 +0000

‘Corporations have one purpose; to make money. But Mozilla Corporation will be different, and only benefit the end-users’

ugh, yeah. no matter how much they will sugar-coat it, its a dark day for Mozilla. All along by supporting free open source software, we thought we were beating the system (the ’system’ being money and greed that dominate the corporate world), but with just a drop of a signature and no public discussion, Mozilla joined the dark side.

Sure, in the immediate future, it will remain free. maybe there will always be a ‘free’ version. and then an optional ‘pro’ or ‘premium’ or ‘plus’ or ‘enhanced’ version, for a minimal fee. and then who knows. bottom line is this: Corporations have only one purpose, to make money. screw the fact all the thousands of hours people devoted to coding and debugging the software, now that its getting traction, we wanna get rich off other people’s work. Nice to know anyone who ‘donated’ to the charitable orginization of Mozilla had some of that money diverted to paying for lawyers and business and tax consultants to start a privately held corporate entity.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:07:49 +0000

if mozzila keeps to open source then they will still remain good, but if they begin to charge for products and start stealing then they are as bad as the cartels now.this would be intresting to see if mozzila will change or not.

I would say it shouldnt have done that. just remained what it was, and would have been a great example.