Gecko under Review

Elizabeth Childs sent us an excellent review of Gecko, along with some notes from the Mozilla Party 2.0. *sigh* Now, that sounds like it would have been fun. The review itself does a good job of talking about why Gecko can be such a big deal for developers. Mmm...standards.

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At last, Gecko, but what about OpenSource?

[CodeShark]

Following JWZ's departure from Mozilla, I really wondered if there was much point in joining the project, however, this article gave me my definitive answer -- yes, there is. However, Gecko is not the major thrust of this post.

Flame time. I hereby accuse the vast majority of /. readers who preach about the virtues of Open Source of hypocrisy.

Why?

1. According to info published in JWZ's resignation, only about thirty non-Netscape developers have joined the project. From statistics published shortly after the codebase was released, the number of peope who downloaded the code (then did nothing) was a couple orders of magnitude greater.
2. Red Hat adds around ten coders to GNOME, and the project accelerates into a 1.X release.
3. recently joined another project, which seemed to have a lot going for it -- turns out that we have (including myself)
4. five developers, including one fellow working mostly on documentation.
5. A few months ago, I offered to start an Open Source wavelet page on my domain. I got just one response. [BTW, I have begun working on the definition and goals for an OpenSource wavelet project. MOTL (more on this later)]

Total? Thirty six coders. According to /. statistics, there's alot more of us right here than seem to be contributing. In my book, we need to spend less time preaching and more time making the virtues of Open Source work.