On 11/27/00 5:28 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Stuart
Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Welch wrote:
>>
>> If the only feedback on bugs comes from Mozilla, and Netscape is saying that
>> NS6 is Mozilla with some AOL-ish features, and the only useful bug info
>> comes from Mozilla, and Netscape's attitude is, we'll foist it off on
>> Mozilla, guess what you are telling corporate America?
>>
>> Netscape will do nothing that doesn't come from Mozilla, ergo, any problems
>> are Mozilla's fault, because Netscape isn't taking any responsibility for
>> their own product other than Branding.
>
> All of this makes sense until you realize that 90% (possibly lower,
> these days, but still high) of the developers working on Mozilla are
> Netscape engineers being paid to do so by Netscape.
>
> Thus if you want LDAP, you have a few options:
>
> 1) Persuade Netscape to let these Netscape engineers write it for
> Mozilla. Just because it's in Mozilla doesn't mean a Netscape person
> didn't write it - most of Mozilla was written by Netscape people,
> although this is gradually changing.
To whom should I speak?
>
> 2) Persuade someone who is not a Netscape engineer to write it for
> Mozilla. This will be tough, because most of these people are volunteers
> who write for mozilla because they want to. NOTE: this *will not* work
> for people paid by Netscape. There are Netscape engineers who would love
> to write this, but Netscape pays their salaries, so Netscape says what
> they do. To change their minds, you have to persuade Netscape.
This will be tough, face it LDAP ain't exactly cool. ;-)
>
> 3) Pay some money to Beonex, who are collecting a pool to fund someone
> to do it.
I'm offering help to them, and we are talking, they seem to be the only real
solution.
>
> 4) Write it yourself.
If I could, I would have done it months ago.
>
> None of these purposes are served by bitching in Mozilla newsgroups.
> Netscape management don't read them (if they did, they'd have been
> persuaded already 3 times over I think) and their programmers don't have
> the choice; volunteer programmers aren't going to be persuaded by any
> amount of bitching.
Ah, but by bitching, the issue stays on the front burner, and can't be
easily ignored. Therefore, one of two things happens...It gets ignored
anyway, and Netscape/Mozilla demonstrates that Corporate and Higher ed
really don't matter to them, or it gets fixed just to shut us the hell up...
john
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