Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> JTK wrote:
> >
> > Garth Wallace wrote:
> > >
> > > No. Webmail access, like AIM and Net2Phone, is one of the features that
> > > Netscape adds to Netscape 6.x but does not contribute to Mozilla.
> >
> > That doesn't sound very "Open" of them. Oh that's right, the whole
> > "Open" thing was a sham from the get-go.
>
> Oh, I get it. 3 closed features (AIM, Webmail, and AOL mail access)
> means that having everything else open is a sham?
>
Yeah, pretty much: "You work on the stuff we don't want to, we'll take
it and bundle it with a bunch of stuff that's proprietary, and you get
nada. So long, sucker!"
> I have never had any desire to use AIM, Netscape webmail, or AOL mail.
What about other web-based mail systems? It'd sure be nice to be able
to hook up to Hotmail or Yahoo mail or Google mail or whatever-mail with
Mozilla, wouldn't it? Well, I mean if the mail portion actually was in
working order. What do you think the chances are of such functionality
being added to Maozilla, Mr. Ballard? Do you really think AOL is going
to give their official Politburo stamp of approval on such
anti-AOL's-bottom-line functionality?
And don't even bring up instant messaging, because we both know that AOL
will fight anybody to the death on that one, even if the code has
nothing to do with Maozilla.
> I
> can get a fully functioning browser (and an almost-adequate mail/news
> client - last time I tried it it came within inches of being my
> permanent client, but crashed just a little too much... I expect to
> start using it full-time at 0.9.2) that does everything I need it to and
> is 100% open.
>
> Is that a sham?
>
Yep. Because it ain't 100% "Open". It's
whatever-AOL-decides-to-let-the-suckers-work-on-% "Open".
> Stuart.
