Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:59:34 +0000 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape story Message-ID: <20010222125933.C19546@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200102220606.XAA07799@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:06:35AM %2B0000 References: <20010221212930.A11954@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200102220606.XAA07799@usr05.primenet.com>
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Ah, thanks for that fascinating insight, Terry. After the letter on jwz and your comments, it explains a lot. Netscape never released the source code to a working project, and yet continued to derive products from the supposedly obsolete browser code. Makes sense now why it was so difficult. The tinkerers could not tinker with a working project, so most lost interest when they could never see the results of their work. However, while Mozilla itself still seems to have survived, apparently the development model made it very easy for the system to become bloated. And apparently the XML parsing (I may have misunderstood this) can easily bog down slower systems. Within minutes of browsing with N6, my laptop fan kicks on and stays on. Maybe Mozilla is different from N6, I don't know. Jonathon -- "One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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