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Offline Newby

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Mozilla goes corporate!
« on: August 05, 2005, 02:42:09 am »
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7085

What do you think? Good long term strategy? Or a bunch of sell outs? :P
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2005, 02:42:40 am »
Goodbye freedom.
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2005, 02:45:09 am »
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2005, 10:27:51 am »
Sellouts.
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2005, 01:03:06 pm »
As much as I hate to see selling out, I do like to see open-source/for-profit companies do well.  It's proof that Open Source works. 
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2005, 07:45:35 pm »
It's what Google did (although they weren't open source) and we all love Google :D
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2005, 03:58:53 am »
Its only a matter of time now until they decide to start selling Firefox. It doesn't matter if its open source or not, look at XChat for example.
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2005, 09:59:00 am »
Quote from: zorm on August 06, 2005, 03:58:53 am
Its only a matter of time now until they decide to start selling Firefox. It doesn't matter if its open source or not, look at XChat for example.

I doubt they'll ever sell Firefox.  They would lose their entire fanbase, and they'd be turning their back on the people that made them successful.  I don't think they'd do that. 

XChat is only sold for Windows, and anybody else is free to download the source, compile, and give it away for free if they want.  The reason they sell it for Windows is that it's such a pain to compile it there.  If Firefox did something stupid like that, I guarentee somebody would be compiling it/distributing it for free.

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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2005, 02:37:27 am »
You underestimate greedy American corporations. The fanbase doesn't mean much when there is a chance for money to be had. The other item of concern is how many patches and such come from outside people. They might be able to scheme up a way to relicense firefox or make it entirely closed source.
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2005, 11:48:33 am »
Then people would take the older sources, update them, and release them for free.
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2005, 02:08:55 pm »
They may give crippled versions of Firefox and charge for the full versions?
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Re: Mozilla goes corporate!
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2005, 10:33:51 pm »
There will always be people willing to crack things :)
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