Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[john levin]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 22:11 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>> "While the Mozilla Corporation product strategy continues to be
>> focused on the individual end-user, Mozilla will continue to work with
>> downstream enterprise-oriented distributors and support vendors to
>> provide a program to enable extended support for otherwise legacy
>> releases."
>>
>> http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/
>>
>> I wonder if that means that security patches for 1.0.x will be
>> available for a bit longer still for Ubuntu. 
> 
> I read that as "we are willing to extend support for 1.0.x if someone
> pays us" ;-)
> 
> Lee
> 
> 

This article:
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185302852&subSection=Open+Source
states:
"Mozilla defined its new support policy by saying that it would, of 
course, continue to roll out security updates for the current version -- 
which in Firefox's case is the 1.5 family -- but that all support for 
prior versions would end 6 months after the introduction of the most 
current edition.

Firefox 1.5 was introduced in late November 2005; if the six months 
applies, then Mozilla would stop updating 1.0.x after May 29, 2006. 
Since it said that Thursday's update to 1.0.8 was the last, one can 
assume that it had made no plans to release additional updates between 
now and late May.

Mozilla did not respond for a request for clarification.

The short lifecycle, which Mozilla admitted was "consumer-focused," will 
be supplemented by hands-on cooperation with corporations that have 
adopted the browser, although Mozilla was thin on details."

Which I read as saying, that Mozilla.org haven't got their story straight.

Has there been any contact between Ubuntu/Canonical and Mozilla?

John