:Suck.com: Before the Body's Cold [The Mozilla Project]
Suck.com: Before the Body's Cold [The Mozilla Project] Jul 31, 2000, 16 :44 UTC (24 Talkback[s]) (6063 reads) (Other stories by Greg Knauss)
"There comes a time when the only
merciful thing to do is pull the plug. When
the old-timer has been bloated and
incontinent for as long as anybody can
remember, it can only be considered an
act of kindness to turn off the machines
and let a dear friend finally breathe its
last. So long, Mozilla, old chum - sorry it
had to come to this."
"Mozilla is dead, or it might as well be. No
matter how many people are exhausting
themselves by pounding on the corpse's
chest, the best thing the population of the
Net can do - both for the good of the
Mozilla Project and for themselves - is
strip what they can from the body, say a
fond farewell and get on with their lives."
"Things weren't supposed to end this
way. When Netscape played their Hail
Mary and released the Navigator source
code to the public, it heralded a new
beginning for the Web. An open source
browser was going to - in order of
difficulty - save the world, resurrect the
dead and beat back the Microsoft
juggernaut. Alas, the great, green hope
instead ran headlong into nearly every
obstacle a software project can face,
often more than once, usually as a direct
result of its own pig-headed
stubbornness. Re-writes, feature bloat
and a profound and unsettling
misunderstanding of what the consumer
market wants have all hobbled Mozilla,
almost from the beginning."
