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Progress and Future of Mozilla the application suite

Submitted by stro on Mon, 2003-02-10 10:29. Mozilla

Here is a brief summary of what progress has been made on Mozilla-the-application-suite since Mozilla 1.0, what the active contributors plan on working on over the next few months, and what might come after that.

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Re: GRE licensing issues

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2003-02-10 16:23.

Hi There,

After reading the article, I can't see anywhere where Mozilla will be closed source. As far as I can tell, the Mozilla libraries will be like DLL's or shared libraries. Each individual application will access these shared libraries.

For example. Company A makes an e-mail app that uses MRE 1.0. The program works fine. Then say Microsoft gets their hands on the MRE and releases a heavily modified version of the MRE (say 1.2) with a CRM-based app. Chances are the e-mail app from Company A will not work with the bastardized M icrosoft version of the MRE.

So basically, the Mozilla guys are protecting the end user from incompatible MRE's. A bit like Sun's JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and Microsoft's offering. And you know what happened there.

Anyway, if Mozilla does go closed source, and the Gnome guys want to have a native browser, they will have to go with KHTML. I can't see that happening soon.

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