Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla

POds writes "Recently a Former Netscape Executive made a 2000 dollar donation to the Amizilla project, but for one reason or another, decided 2000 wasn't good enough and donated, yet another 2000 dollars. His only request is that he wants to see the amount get over $10,000 so is requesting others donate what they can. The Booty is now over $8400 and goes to the first developer(s) to port Mozilla to the Amiga platform."

Comments

Re:Amiga zealots.

[Dark Lord Seth]

AMIGA AINT DEAD!!!

It just smells funny...

*hugs his A500*

Reason for Mozilla?

[mnmn]

I've never gotten the very rationale for all the work being done on Mozilla. I can understand a good standards-compliant and full-featured browser, but on one hand, Opera does a great job if you dont care about opensource like 99% of the users, and the rest simply use the IE that come with their OSes. Mozilla as many people have admitted is over-featured, but Firebird is not seeing much action in development either.

So I think Mozilla is a bit of a developer challenge to see how many ports it can run on... but quite honestly, even most opensource users dont really use mozilla. Konquerer, and even the older netscape communicator do a reasonable job for most webpages without needing a fat CPU. I tried hard to run Mozilla on my Sun Ultra 5 with 128mb RAM and Solaris 9, but had to settle on opera for performance reasons.

So can someone who has been using Mozilla for along time explain the reason for all this work on Mozilla? Is it for some practical or business purpose like Samba, Apache, X, gaim, or is it attracting developers for other reasons?