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Mozilla being shelved in favour of phoenix

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baggab:
Is Mozilla solid OSS?  I have been using it as a browser for 6 months.  I was directed to using Composer for HTML web site development.

Now I'm back to looking at Mozilla and AOL.  Is my understanding correct: AOL could stop funding the project (which would slow its progress considerably,) but it cannot make the software proprietary again.

I don't think much of AOL and its conroling ways.

SAJChurchey:
Phoenix, Chimera (or whatever the fuck it's called now).  It's pretty much all the same, running the Gecko engine.  It's just a matter of what u need it to do.  Most people need only a navigator, which i would recommend one of the other projects for.

I still use Mozilla, b/c I still use the mail program crom time to time, and sometiems the IRC Chat client.

As long as your supporting open source, it's ok.

They're plans since the 1.0 release was to create a suite of apps, including a calendar among other things.  I don't think it's a bad thing, although if you integrate it as such, it tends to run a bit less inefficiently, but that's the cost of integrated convenience.

It's all a matter of which part of the Mozilla suite you need.  Most people use it exclusively as a browser and need to download Phoenix and Chimera for the sake of efficiency.

baggab:
After a couple of days of education about Mozilla, and its owner AOL, I have become more comfortable with this dichotomy.

As the previous post says: as long as your supporting open source what does it matter.

Its just that I am embarking on a animation project /w web components and I didn't want to see the house cave in down the road -- say five years.

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