Dropping support for Mozilla suite?

[Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN]

all,

eric's point about mozilla sutie being the showcase for most of 
the stuff that filters down to the subservient tools in the moz case.

mozilla is far and away the most important object as far as mozilla.com
is concerned so staying abreast of firefox almost certainly means watching
mozilla for new or enhanced features for firefox.

just reading most of the message traffic re: this thread, i'm not sure
until eric's message that most of the respondants were aware of the lineage
of mozilla software.

~piranha

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Eric Dunbar
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:27 AM
To: Ubuntu Users
Subject: Re: Dropping support for Mozilla suite?


My 2 cents worth...

It'd be foolish to drop support for Mozilla altogether. Certainly,
take if off the CD since it's a large package and not vital, but keep
it in the official repository and ensure it's offically supported.

For some (many) corporate users Mozilla will be a better solution than
FireFox since they're possibly used to Netscape for e-mail + web,
whilst FireFox + Evolution/ThunderBird will require supporting two
separate applications and two separate interfaces (I say this
begrudgingly b/c I *hate* Netscrape/Mozilla's e-mail component but
there are people who like it & use it & are used to it... I blame
Netscape for the popularisation of HTML in e-mail, the single greatest
blight on the planet (well, ok, so there are even more annoying things
but HTML mail does rank up there with spam).

FireFox is an admirable web browser, but Mozilla is analogous to
Netscape, a browser with which a lot of users are familiar through the
ages on Mac and Windows. This gives users the opportunity to jump from
Mac/Windows and know what's going on if they're Netscape users.

The other advantage to keeping Mozilla is that it's also the
technology show-case for the Mozilla project. Major developments will
first enter into the Mozilla project and then filter down to the other
projects (FireFox, Netscape, Camino, Enlightenment).

Eric.

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