On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:42:33 -0400, "mto" <nobody@nowhere.com>
prounounced a fatwah thus:
>
>"Lance Delacroix" <lance_delacroix@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
>news:fpq1hvcm7g5ed57imgmf34tg5q0q11qog0@4ax.com.. .
>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:31:10 -0400, "mto" <nobody@nowhere.com>
>> prounounced a fatwah thus:
>>
>> >Well, Mr. Expert - I guess that you should write a book so that you can
>> >teach every internet security expert in the world - 99.9% of whom
>disagree
>> >strongly with you - how things should PROPERLY be done. And of course,
>all
>> >the rest of us too while you are at it.
>> >
>> >Mozilla - you mean the one owned and developed by Netscape? This
>Netscape -
>>
>> Mozilla developed by Netscape? You've got some serious delusions
>> happening there, bud.
>>
>Not hardly - go look up the history of Mozilla. Netscape released its
>sourcecode for the Netscape browser as Open Source in order to get a bunch
>of developers to work on it for free.
"Released" its source code; then Netscape doesn't *own* it.
"To get a bunch of developers to work on it for free"; then Netscape
doesn't *develop* it.
Here's what you wrote:
>Mozilla - you mean the one owned and developed by Netscape?
Mozilla is neither owned nor developd by Netscape.
> Mozilla is to this day the underlying
>basis of Netscape - has been ever since it's first release. I was a beta
>tester
Gosh. A beta tester, huh? Whew.



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