On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Kevin T. Neely <<a href="mailto:ktneely@astroturfgarden.com">ktneely@astroturfgarden.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:43:26PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote:<br>
> If OSS doesn't view itself as professional as commercial stuff, then it's<br>
> guaranteed to fail in the long run. Look at the success stories of OSS;<br>
</div>> Firefox, Apache, Linux, OOo, and so on. They aren't based around the<br>
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Oh really? I started using Mozilla 0.5 or so, shortly after they split the code from Netscape. There were a number of problems with all compenents (back before the Firefox-Thunderbird split) and submitted and voted for numerous bugs, reallocating my votes after certain bugs were fixed.<br>
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I would posit that Firefox is a better product specifically *because* of all the bug submissions.</blockquote><div> </div><div>My point there was that Mozilla/FF always considered itself to be professional, no matter how open the code is. Did anyone from the Mozilla team/foundation say "meh, it's my browser, I like it this way. Go write your own."<br>
<br>Besides, a typical install installs not only Firefox but the crash reporter... so, it nicely sidesteps the issue we are discussing anyway. <br></div></div>