Month: July 2003

Much news abounds on the death of Netscape thingy, and as a supporter of Mozilla (and open-source in general) there is much concern.

Nonetheless, the best blurb so far seems to be from the Web Standards Buzz, which points to a C|Net summary of the situation. The best news from my perspective seems to be that AOL will continue to provide some sort of support for the Mozilla Project (Foundation?) but will no longer control it. Mitchell will be running the show, with Mitch in the background. Many thanks to the both of them.

(See also: Eulogizing Netscape)

Need an Introduction to Thunderbird? I’ve been using Thunderbird for a while now to deal with my IMAP accounts, and it’s been stable as heck. Still no complaints… I guess I can stop saying that I have no complaints, and not actually say anything until I have a complain. I’ll let you know after the next release.

What’s new you ask? Why, the Mozilla Foundation, that’s what… (MozillaZine has a mention of it as well.)

The Mozilla Foundation is a new non-profit organization that will serve as the home for mozilla.org. As before, mozilla.org will coordinate and encourage the development and testing of Mozilla code. The Mozilla Foundation will also promote the distribution and adoption of our flagship applications based on that code. AOL, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, and other companies will continue to support Mozilla through the Foundation.

What this means for the Mozilla browser and our other products and technologies: more innovation from the open source developers, and a greater focus on end users.

I must admit though, I was disappointed the newly designed mozilla.org didn’t seem to validate :/

Via the jEdit Community site comes this link to a JavaWorld review of jEdit.

And remember – jEdit: It’s not just for Java…

Yahoo! buys! Overture! (Great headline, BTW.) Well, I had been using AlltheWeb as an alternative to Google. Now that AlltheWeb might somehow turn into Yahoo! what am I to do? I suppose I could try using Yahoo! or perhaps I’ll just stop searching for things altogether and concentrate on writing object oriented perl…

Oh, I heard Overture was searching for a buyer… I guess they found one! (Sorry, that was a lame joke.)