Fabian Guisset wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > You are, of course, referring to Ben Bucksch, the owner of Beonex, whose
> > business it is making improvements to Mozilla for money, and supporting
> > the resultant software.
> >
> >Gerv
> >
>
> Strange, that the word "money" rhymes with "Ben Bucksch" in Mozilla.
> When I read this post I directly thought of him too. I don't think
> anyone else does that. Not that it bothers me, but as Jason said, it
> "doesn't speak well for the Mozilla community at large, which surely is
> an open source community effort based on common feedback, agreement, and
> an idealistic conception of software development rather than individual,
> and capitalistic, "rogue" membership".
>
> Fabian.
>
>
LOL,
The last time I looked a rouge capitalistic company called AOL was playing a
"minor" role through it's Netscape division in the Mozilla community with the
full intention of charging people for some services. Another rouge
capitalistic company called Red Hat has also contributed, again with the
intent of charging people for some of it's services. Ben isn't the only one
who's in Mozilla with the intent of making money off the project either
directly or indirectly.
John
