Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-21 Thread Torgeir Veimo
Bart Meerdink wrote: It would probably be a good business proposition for AOL/TW to let Mozilla find its own course with less pressure, buy Opera Software A/S, and let them customize Opera to get the top-quality browser they so long waited for. Is this a troll to raise the stock value

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-21 Thread Bart Meerdink
Torgeir Veimo wrote: Is this a troll to raise the stock value of Opera Software A/S? Seems a bit offtopic to me, but AFAIK there is no Opera stockprice (if you're from Norway you surely are better informed than I am). And to me, to judge Mozilla next to Opera with respect to all kinds of

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-20 Thread Bart Meerdink
Alex wrote: I have seen a lot of concern about these regressions, and at the same time we've been seeing the tree whacked with a lot of major landings in the past 6 weeks, looks to me to be the likely culprit. I've heard that some fairly significant landings have already been delayed to

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Christian Mattar
Hi! Bart Meerdink wrote: Maybe this is flamebait in this newsgroup, but that's not my intention. People who have tried Opera on Linux migtht ask themselves if Opera isn't a lot closer to what Mozilla should be than Mozilla itself (wrt functionality, I'm not speaking about the open

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Fabian Guisset
Bart Meerdink wrote: Maybe this is flamebait in this newsgroup, but that's not my intention. Too bad. This is not only a flamebait, it is also an insult to the project. Fabian. People who have tried Opera on Linux migtht ask themselves if Opera isn't a lot closer to what Mozilla

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Bart Meerdink
Thanks for your constructive reply! Christian Mattar wrote: So, who defines what Mozilla should be? The Slashdot-crowd? The End-User? Web-designers? You? Well, I asked the readers here at n.p.mozilla.general. But I would say that IE is still the main reference, with addition of mail/news

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Bill Lee
Fabian Guisset wrote: Bart Meerdink wrote: Maybe this is flamebait in this newsgroup, but that's not my intention. Too bad. This is not only a flamebait, it is also an insult to the project. Fabian. We, as public testers, are constantly told upon complaining/reporting problems:

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Alex
My concern is, that there seems to be little concern for the reasons behind these regressions (amount of coupling, tolerance for 'shortcuts' and varying programming practices). I always must think of the relentless auditing of Theo de Raadt and his OpenBSD collegues. But in the end I'm

Re: AOL to buy Opera?

2001-05-19 Thread Alex
Bill Lee wrote: Fabian Guisset wrote: Bart Meerdink wrote: Maybe this is flamebait in this newsgroup, but that's not my intention. Too bad. This is not only a flamebait, it is also an insult to the project. Fabian. We, as public testers, are constantly told upon