Hi Peter,

with regard to your view that Beonex would be just a "debug-stuff ripped"
of Mozilla, let me emphasise that one common misconception about Mozilla
is that it does develop a browser to be used in other projects, such
as Netscape. Supplying a browser to the end-user is not their objective
even though it may appear as such, Mozilla is rather dedicated to develop
the source code itself and "attempt to provide roadmaps to the code, and
to projects based on the code".

Mozilla's mission statement clearly states this as follow:

"We will provide a central point of contact and community for those
interested in using or improving the source code". Most importantly,
Mozilla outlines "we are NOT the primary coders. (Most of the code that
goes into the distribution will be written elsewhere, both within the
Netscape Client Engineering group, and increasingly, out there on the net,
at other companies and other development organizations.")
That is the point, where Beonex steps in: We target the end-user.

I quoted Mozilla's mission statement from
http://www.mozilla.org/mission.html

>From the technical side, Beonex differs from Mozilla in its concern about
the users privacy and security:

* A higher level of security is ensured by the deletion of cookies at
shutdown, by disabled invasive JavaScript commands.
* Beonex's message view mode protects the user from most worms activating
themselves.
* For all the browser's features, please have a look at
http://www.beonex.com/communicator/doc/feature/security/

With the best wishes,

Bernd Dittmann
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Where are the differences between Mozilla and Beonex? They appear to be
> the same, in Beonex is just the Debug-Stuff ripped.
>
> With 0.6 I understood the release, but now Mozilla 1.0 stable is out...
>
> No offense, I just want to know what is better in Beonex 0.8 than in
> Mozilla 1.0 ;)
>
> Thank you
> Peter
>


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