Comment Mnemonic Alternative (Score 1) 34
Well, mozilla will be included in HotDog,Homesite, Neoplanet, doczilla and quite a few other applications. That proves mozilla is very modular.
I don't see how this is so. In all my playing around with and reading about Mozilla I'm inclined to conclude that it aims to be yet another monolith that includes far too much functionality beyond what I want from my browser.
Those applications will simply be bigger monoliths that are a superset of mozilla.
On the other hand, I don't think we'll see mnemonic is any commercial web-based app.
Mnemonic is Free Software. When it releases, you may include it in a commercial application under the terms of the GPL. It's not aiming to be a commercial browser. In light of this, I'm afraid I don't quite understand your point.
If mnemonic is the only alternative to IE then people will prefer MS' license over the GPL
As well as being unfair (you're placing the fate of the GPL on the shoulders of the Mnemonic Project?) this comment shows a lack of understanding on your part of what Mnemonic is about.
Mnemonic is not in competition with any commercial or free software project. Our singular aim is to build an extensible technology that will allow us (as users of it) to do what *we* want with our browser (or ftp client or whatever) *when* we want it. That keeps the browser small, fast and completely under the user's control.
I mean no disrespect to the hardworking people on the mozilla project. I hope it succeeds almost as much as I hope Mnemonic succeeds.
It's a very big world out there, with plenty of room for any number of browsers and for freedom of choice for the end user to select the one which is best for them (MSIE included)
Yours
Joe Vaughan
Project Coordinator
Mnemonic Project.
I don't see how this is so. In all my playing around with and reading about Mozilla I'm inclined to conclude that it aims to be yet another monolith that includes far too much functionality beyond what I want from my browser.
Those applications will simply be bigger monoliths that are a superset of mozilla.
On the other hand, I don't think we'll see mnemonic is any commercial web-based app.
Mnemonic is Free Software. When it releases, you may include it in a commercial application under the terms of the GPL. It's not aiming to be a commercial browser. In light of this, I'm afraid I don't quite understand your point.
If mnemonic is the only alternative to IE then people will prefer MS' license over the GPL
As well as being unfair (you're placing the fate of the GPL on the shoulders of the Mnemonic Project?) this comment shows a lack of understanding on your part of what Mnemonic is about.
Mnemonic is not in competition with any commercial or free software project. Our singular aim is to build an extensible technology that will allow us (as users of it) to do what *we* want with our browser (or ftp client or whatever) *when* we want it. That keeps the browser small, fast and completely under the user's control.
I mean no disrespect to the hardworking people on the mozilla project. I hope it succeeds almost as much as I hope Mnemonic succeeds.
It's a very big world out there, with plenty of room for any number of browsers and for freedom of choice for the end user to select the one which is best for them (MSIE included)
Yours
Joe Vaughan
Project Coordinator
Mnemonic Project.
