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Mozilla.org launches Mozilla 1.0
Here it is at last: the press release announcing the launch of Mozilla 1.0.
"Built on the Gecko layout engine, Mozilla 1.0 is cross-platform
and integrates a core set of applications that allow users to access
the capabilities of the Web, including a web browser, an email reader
and a chat client." Congratulations are due to the Mozilla team, which has worked a long time to create this release.
For more coverage, see the articles on mozilla.org and Mozillazine. (Log in to post comments)
Bravo! Posted Jun 6, 2002 0:05 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] When the Mozilla project was first announced; aways back before jwz got pissed and left, I hailed it as one of the first major steps in Our Plans For World Domination.Opinions, of course, differ on whether it was in fact responsible for all of what has come after or not, but *I* certainly think that it was the major item which opened the floodgates. Wonderful to see that they've gotten this release out the door. Let us hope that the folks at Netscape are bright enough to retool the production release of Netscape 7 to be based upon this, instead of the release candidate they're using for PR1. Not that I'm betting on that, you understand.
I wonder what jwz is saying now Posted Jun 6, 2002 11:55 UTC (Thu) by sam (guest, #1329) [Link] I wonder what jwz is saying now.The thing about free software is that it takes a long time to write. In part because open source engineers have higher standards for quality than close source devlopers. Four years to come up with version 1.0 of a well-designed standards complient browser (more than I can say about the mess jwz left behind when he quit Netscape) which was a complete rewrite is not too long when compared to the 11 years between RMS' announcment for a GNU system and the release of Linux 1.0. - Sam
I know what *rms* is saying now Posted Jun 6, 2002 16:26 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link] But I'm not listening to all of it.As I have noted in my my commentary on the LWN piece a few weeks back about Joe Barr and the "proper" name for Linux, GNU still have not shipped a production release of their own kernel, the Hurd.
I wonder what jwz is saying now Posted Jun 11, 2002 19:42 UTC (Tue) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link] Actually, us closed-source developers have high standards of quality too--it's just we also have insane release schedules to deal with.
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