TriNetre - Archive for September 17, 2004
(no longer updated)
OREM, UTAH -- In a startling and unexpected joint press conference, CBS and SCO, Inc. announced today that President George W. Bush had conspired with IBM to steal Unix code while Linus Torvalds was AWOL from the Finnish army.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder at the podium, Dan Rather and Darl McBride flourished what they said was documentary proof, in the form of source code listings found in a wastebasket at Texas Air National Guard offices.
- Armed and Dangerous, by Eric S. Raymond
Mozilla Foundation's PR has gone into an overdrive to promote Firefox as it nears the milestone 1.0 public release. However, don't you think the initiative is a bit premature at least for the general public?
The project is in 1.0 PR (Preview Release) now, not exactly the 1.0 stable public release. Given that, I would not want my parents to install it, not because it is unstable, but because reinstalling the software when the final 1.0 release comes in may not be a simple process they can do for themselves. Given the fact that almost every release of Firefox seems to breaks most of the themes and extensions, it will be too much to ask a non-technical person to hunt down the new versions of their latest themes and extensions and install them.
Spreading the word is important for the project, but one should consider the "once bitten, twice shy" attitude of the general public. Let us get a final public release, get most of the extensions and themes in places (maybe even offer the most useful/popular of them as a pack), and then blow our horns.
While we are on the topic of Firefox extensions, I finally found a spell checker that seems to work (at least in 0.9.3) - SpellBound.
