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MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"
Wonder what I should bring as a present to the party.... Lets see, 5th anniversary... Thats paper or wood gifts right?
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
There was a Reported shortage of Godzilla heads at Spencers this week. Now I understand!
5 years = 1.5778463 x 10^20 picoseconds. I love Google's calculator.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur" ;-)
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5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft
"The difference between pornography and erotica is the lighting" - Woody Allen
It took them five years to do it, but they've come up with the best web browser known to man: with daylight second, and Opera third.
Here's hoping that the next five years sees the same committed focus to Firebird as has been poured into Mozilla.
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We are talking about a party for Godzilla types here: No Flamable Gifts!
From the timeline:
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MozillaZine asks its readers to pay the site's hosting fees. Much to our surprise, you do.
Not a lot of confidence in their reader base..
http://almostsmart.com
Anyway, the point is, these days the majority of us - geekdom, that is - use Mozilla or a Mozilla-derived browser (Galeon and Phoenix/Firebird). Mozillazine deserves a lot of credit for keeping the fan base alive during the long, dark period of time when it wasn't really clear that Mozilla was ever going to succeed. Thanks, Mozillazine, for giving me hope and keeping me and a lot of other hopeful users fed with info and inspired to stay involved and keep the project going.
people that actually give a shit. Everybody knows Microsoft is here to make their cash pile larger at any cost.
The Mozilla folks are here to make sure we have a good browser that runs on what we choose to run it on.
Blogging because I can...
Namaste
then with a slashdotting?
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
I've been using Mozilla for about 5 years......and happy with it for most of that time. I have used it exclusively for about the last 4 years. I still have no use for 'local folders' in the email client....what are they for? Now looking forward to Firebird and Thunderbird!
Karma? Sorry, i don't believe in superstition. http://talk.thinkingmatters.org.nz
ftp to:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nightly/latest-trunk
it is:
MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
I honestly think that these two apps can replace IE/OE on most people's home computers within 6 months. I try to evangelized Firebird with my friends and coworkers and it worked up until the new google toolbar for IE started blocking popups.. I still love it though. Love live the *bird.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
I've thought long and hard about the Internet phoenominon known as "Mozilla," or more frequently, "Open-Source Fascist Dinosaur - a name aptly deserved, taking into consideration the political philosophies of its filthy hippie developers and its inability to load even the simplest page before the sun goes supernova. During this thinking-period, which I like to call "the long thought," I have thunk up many thoughts, and I feel that these think-thoughts need to be shared.
Mozilla scares me. I often use Mozilla to browse through pornography late at night, and I often have a difficult time maintaining an erection. The thought of manipulating a Reptile-based browser to view naked females has left me caught in a situation where I can only climax if I envision The Lizard performing disgusting sexual acts upon these nude men... women on my screen.
Nightmares often occur after I pass out in my ergonomically-correct office chair - which I stole from Office Depot late at night - exhausted from the sexual fervor of masturbating my inch-long penis. These nightmares center around an unescapable arena, in which Roman females are cast upon the bloody sand, and left victim to a large creature known only as "The Lizard." Its code-bloated reptile penis repeatedly punctures their fragile sex organs until they split in half, and are then eaten.
I blame Mozilla for my unemployment, lack of a love life, and the constant backfiring from the 351 V8 in my primer-colored 1973 Ford Crown Victoria LTD. I also blame Mozilla for the lack of acceleration in my vehicle, much comparable to the overall lack of acceleration in the browser itself. I believe that Mozilla is in dire need of a rebuilt carburetor and a new set of shorty headers.
Unless massive improvements are made to the Mozilla code base and user interface, I can forsee the continual erosion of my personal life and the lives of all other Mozilla users.
Please, help.
Just as a curio, the linked page features as the second selection Wesley Willis - who sadly passed away just a little while ago on the 21st of August, aged 40. I also used to listen to Wesleys strange stream of conciousness punk rants while coding. I'll miss you, Wes.
-- YLFI
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
is part of their grand plan. A while back Microsoft told an audience of MVP's that they would like to create the same sort of community development atmosphere as found in opensource projects. Later on they talked about expanding it to end users.
The fact remains, Microsoft cannot create that atmosphere because leadership has to come from the top. If the top acts in the "dog eat dog" manor, then what will their ISV's and end users do?
Ultimately, the ball is in Microsofts court. In terms of helping their bottom line, it is a great way of making themselves look good. If the plan did work then the feel good factor about Microsoft would increase, especially in the "decision making" area of businesses who can be easily blinded by PR stunts.
"The difference between pornography and erotica is the lighting" - Woody Allen
Seriously, kudos to Mozilla for having a spam filter that is better than any of the non confirmation spam-tools I've seen.