Netscape's original mistake was to assume that if they dumped the uncompilable bits of one half of their old and broken browser into open source that it would somehow magically fix itself into an IE-beating super browser.
Of course Open Source doesn't work like that and Netscape learnt the hard way.
It needs someone to create a cool, reasonably complete, usable but with bags of room for improvement program that people can use and improve to make even better.
This is what Mozilla has become after a year or so of intensive development. It is now at the stage of being quantifiably useful product that is screaming for contributions to make it even better.
As Mozilla moves from alpha to beta, you'll start to see Open Source play a greater and greater role in fixing the bugs and making it the coolest most stable browser going.
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Netscape's original mistake was to assume that if they dumped the uncompilable bits of one half of their old and broken browser into open source that it would somehow magically fix itself into an IE-beating super browser.
Of course Open Source doesn't work like that and Netscape learnt the hard way.
It needs someone to create a cool, reasonably complete, usable but with bags of room for improvement program that people can use and improve to make even better.
This is what Mozilla has become after a year or so of intensive development. It is now at the stage of being quantifiably useful product that is screaming for contributions to make it even better.
As Mozilla moves from alpha to beta, you'll start to see Open Source play a greater and greater role in fixing the bugs and making it the coolest most stable browser going.
This article was by me by the way in case anyone was wondering who this anonymous volunteer happened to be.