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Mozilla Relicensing
bluephone writes: "Today, the bits go into the tree to relicense Mozilla under a triple license, MPL/GPL/LGPL. What this means, for those of you who aren't too up on this stuff, is that when YOU take the code, and make your own product, you now have a triple choice as to what license you want to distribute your code under. Read the FAQ here."
the next time osama does the world a favour, could he please take out redmond, nothing there but whores
I'm stunned that the BSD license is not being used. The BSD license has historically been on the forefront of increasing the freedom of users and developers alike. The GNU license is actually designed to further Stallman's communist political philosophy, which even the most cursory examination of the GPL would illustrate. I think the BSD license has the most flerbage too, yes, the GPL is very deficient in the flerbage department.
I'm sick of these liars who try and say mozilla is better than IE. That's just not true. It's such bullshit. Mozilla is slow, and buggy and bloated. Sorry IE is fast as hell and everything works. IE6 is so fucking awsome. I spend most of my time in linux using mozilla. When i go to a windows box to do something and i check out a website or two with IE6 it's like oh my god this is fucking fast as hell, all the sites work properly and despite the fudsters it crashes alot less than mozilla. I use linux constantly and i think free software is important, but face facts, IE smokes mozilla in a major way. Mozilla is a perpetually beta peice of bloatware. Each release some bugs get fixed, but other bugs pop up. In fact posting to slashdot sucks ass in 0.9.4, becuase if you hit replyto fast in less than 20 seconds, then hit back, the form is empty. And since slashdot has multiple filters that do this, it becomes close to unusable. 0.9 was a big improvement. But every release after that is just a wack-a-mole of kill some bugs here, some others pop up somewhere else. Sorry IE6 is fast and stable and everything just works. I wanted mozilla to be good, but lets get realistic, it's time to give up hope on that floundering project. The Hurd will probably be finished before mozilla.
I like the BSD license because I'm a strong believer in corporate welfare. My goal in life is to spend all my free time writing software for Microsoft to steal. I think every programmer should devote several hours per week of free time to donate their skills to multi-billon dollar multi-national corporations. I plan on devoting all my vacation and leave time to this worthy cause.
WHO CARES?!?!?!??!?!??!? MOZILLA IS AND ALWAYS WILL B GAY MY GOD WHO THE FUCk WOULD USE A MORE COMPLICATED AND TROUBLESOM BROWSER JUST GO BE A COOL ANTI-MICROSOFT?????? FUCK YOU
Which faggot likes giant dicks in his anus?
Answer: You.
What are you a member of Osoma bin Stallmans cult. Face it mozilla is gay as hell and only getting fruitier by the release. Mozilla is a joke. Only zealots use it. Seriously what person is going to give up the power and speed of IE for some gay big bearded psychos dream for faggoty society of semen and source code sharing.
He's not talking about free as in beer you cock goblin.
Unfortunately, it is. Flamebait as it might be, very few people are actually *using* Netscape/Mozilla anymore. That means an equal few are using its components. Add to that the advances Microsoft has made with IE in Pocket PC 2.0 (full Media Player functionality) and this particular open source team is, unfortunately, playing catchup.
There's a reason why AOL hasn't switched its users over to Netscape, and it has very little to do with licensing agreements with MS. They need a *fully-functional, fully-crashproof* browser to put on a multitude of devices. Microsoft took 5.5 tries to get it right, Netscape is up to 6 but unfortunately threw out a lot of code in the process. Reinventing the wheel can be difficult when you're up against a multibillion dollar company.
Don't get me wrong. I think the Netscape/Mozilla project is important, if for no other reason than competition. MS finally got an OS stable (Windows 2000) when they were beginning to lose share in the server market. As long as there is *some* alternative to IE, there will be improvements in both software packages. Until that happens, though, I will be using IE when I'm on a Windows box.
I got a great idea!
dip a towel haed in gasoline....
Human torch!