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Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bring-it-on dept.

fire-eyes writes "After many years, the Mozilla cvs tree just closed for 1.0. " It's been a long time coming. And I'm glad that on Unix we still have a browser war since Konqueror and Mozilla are both excellent browsers. Congratulations to every developer who committed a line of code, but mostly to you guys in the middle who had to wrangle the whole project.

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  1. In other news... by eth1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Several airliners were hit by airborne pigs today, and ACME sweaters reports their largest order ever has come in from Hell.

  2. Go moz! by InsaneCreator · · Score: 3, Funny

    They grow up so fast... it brings tears to my eyes

    *snif*

  3. Mozilla wins. by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always wondered whether we would see Duke Nukem Forever or Mozilla 1.0 first. Sort of a tortoise and tortoise race.

  4. other reports indicate... by mikeee · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that Mozilla 1.0 will be the default web browserin the GNU/Hurd OS.

  5. Re:AOL's Pressure To Close by J'raxis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except every Joe Sixpack who uses AOL will have his Windows default browser quietly changed to Mozilla next time he upgrades his AOL.

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    Liberty in your lifetime
  6. Oops, too late... by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody will want to use it now because web surfing has lost it's luster...

  7. Re:AOL Timewarner by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, that's far to coincidental to get the conspiracy theorists going. They need something like:
    • Mozilla was designed by the guy on the Grassy Knoll
    • The SSL code was derived from code lifted off alien spaceships in Area 51
    • The NSA/CIA/FBI/MI5 has embedded code that will allow them to feed subliminal messages into the X10 popup ads
    • Microsoft is a major contributer to Mozilla, which explains why it's been in development for so long
    • Mozilla actually died in 1967, and was replaced by a Mozilla look-alike. If you compile the source code backwards, you'll get error messages like "I buried Moz". Mozilla's death is the real reason behind the breakup of Netscape.