Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard RV say these wise
> words:
>
>
>>Maybe Moz developers should have kept the old Milestone numbering
>>system. like Milestone 18, 19, 20,45, 46, etc. and maybe tag a specific
>>one as Stable (Quality) Release. After all Mozilla's target audience are
>> software developers and integrators, not "lay" people.
>>
>
> Why?
>
> It's not got all the commercial rubbish that gets thrown into other
> browsers - that makes it, IMHO, extremely attractive to "lay" people who
> don't wan't hype and hoopla, but only want the software that works.
>
> After all, if one wants to download a browser, why should one also have to
> download at least two other pieces of software in the same bundle?
>
> And why should one be subjected to all that online shopping pressure?
>
> (speaking as a person who no longer sees 98% of all the adverts on the WWW
> as a result of savvy proxy settings)
>
>
> seeya - wouldn't wanna be ya.
>
> Mama Cass
>
>
I don't think Mozilla is attractive to laypeople for this reason. A true
'layperson' doesn't even notice that they're being bombarded by
advertising in software. A layperson doesn't go through the trouble of
editing their HOSTS file, and hacking AIM to reomve the ads. They just
use AIM, and surf the web, allowing for ads as a necessary evil. Mozilla
isn't attractive to laypeople, it's attractive to the so-called 'power
user'.
-bZj
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Brian Z Jones | down8 at yahoo dot com
Mozilla 0.9.3 | Windows2000 Server SP2
