Mozilla's Year In Review For 2003 192
An anonymous reader writes "Like last year, MozillaZine has published a review of Mozilla's world in 2003. Obviously, the year was dominated by AOL's decision to murder Netscape (though various acts of 'brand necrophilia' will ensure that the Netscape name lives on in one form or another). This, combined with Mozilla Firebird's and Mozilla Thunderbird's steady progress towards replacing the Mozilla suite, made 2003 very much a transitional year for the open source project. Other memories to tell your grandchildren include mozilla.org's fifth birthday, the new roadmap, the Firebird name debate and a new chapter being added to The Book of Mozilla."
Re:Having just tried Firebird... (Score:4, Funny)
It must be hard for all Cow orkers of the world to not have a choice of cow orking tool... ;)
Happy New Year!
P.S. Firebird Rocks...!
Re:Postus firstus (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Mozilla and /. (slightly OT) (Score:4, Funny)
Not my experience as creator of standards compliant websites.
You nasty little troll.
More quotes from the book of Mozilla (Score:2, Funny)
II. MOZILLA
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CAPUT III
And the beast shall be made *legion*. Its numbers shall be increased
a *thousand thousand* fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto
a great *storm* shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon
shall *tremble*.
- from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)
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CAPUT VII
And so at last the beast *fell* and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all
was not lost, for from the ash rose a *great bird*. The bird gazed
down upon the unbelievers and cast *fire* and *thunder* upon them.
For the beast had been *reborn* with its strength *renewed*, and the
followers of *Mammon* cowered in horror.
- from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
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An enormous sigh of relief resounds throughout all of Mozillaland.
Sounds of rejoicing are heard from all corners of the Earth. "They
have conquered the beast!" the voices cry.
And the dimensions remain constant 'till the end of days.
- from The Book Of Mozilla, 7:24
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20847
CAPUT XII
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling *cloud* of
*vengeance.* The house of the unbelievers shall be *razed* and they
shall be *scorched* to the earth. Their tags shall *blink* until the
end of *days.*
- from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
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CAPUT XXVII
14 And the Lizard spake, saying, Windows shall I support, and
Macintosh, and the divers flavours of Unix; yea, even unto the
latest effluvium from the Gates of Hell shall I spread my seed:
this it pleaseth me to do.
15 But OS/2 shall I ignore, for in sooth nobody useth it.
16 Then was the land filled with the sound of much wailing and
gnashing of teeth, for millions of people used OS/2 and knew that
it was good. Yet the Lizard did harden his heart against them, and
said, Nay, there is no demand for it.
17 And the Blue One did create an Explorer of the Web, yet updated it
slowly, and documented it poorly, and it was filled with a plague
of locusts.
18 And those that followed the Lizard became enamoured of Frames, and
wrote pages which could not be read by the Lizard's brethren, for
the lemmings were lazy, saying only: Verily, thy browser doth
suck. Thou may'st obtain the Lizard's hence.
19 Then it came to pass that the Blue One made a pact with the
Lizard, that the Lizard should work its artifice for the sake of
the Ancient Sorcerer. And a reference to the Lizard's wares was
placed atop the Sorcerer's desk, that he might obtain it whenever
he desired.
20 But the number of the work the Lizard gave unto the Sorcerer was
Two, and the Greek sigil Beta was affixed to the number, yet all
the rest of the Lizard's minions were given the number Three.
21 And lo, the Lizard's work was itself filled with locusts, and
verily did it consume the Sorcerer's disk space whenever it was
used, and it did mightily crash his system full oft.
22 And the Lizard named several of the locusts, and regarding one the
Lizard said, The tag worketh not. Whereupon the users
hearing this were sore amazed, and said they one unto another,
Verily, that is no bug, but a feature to be highly praised while
it lasteth.
- from The Book of Mozilla, 27:14 - 22 (King Kong Authorised Version)
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