Mozilla Foundation Meets The GNOME Foundation

An anonymous reader writes "The board of directors of the GNOME foundation recently met with a few representatives of the Mozilla foundation - discussing how they could collaborate a little closer in future. A number of interesting things were discussed, including XAML/Avalon and the future of Firefox in GNOME/Linux. Check out the minutes of the meeting on the Gnome mailing list."

Mozilla meets Gnome.

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Tokyo get stomped?

Do not annoy the Stallman

[Rick the Red]

the future of Firefox in GNOME/Linux

Isn't that "GNU/Linux"? Has GNOME taken over GNU?

Preliminary list of agreements

[Anonymous Coward]

The GNOME people have agreed to cooperate subject to the following conditions:

• The organization name "Mozilla" must be changed to "GNU/Mozilla".
• The project name "Firefox" must be changed to "GNU/Firefox".
• The technology name "XAML/Avalon" must be changed to "GNU/XAML//GNU/Avalon".

It's genius

[teamhasnoi]

They're going to incorporate the browser into the OS. It's a sure sign that linux is ready for the desktop, because obviously you can't have an OS that isn't tightly integrated with the internet.

Vision like this could only come the linux community.

Re:Be careful how close you get to Mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree. No sooner have I downloaded and installed Mozilla browser that I have noticed by 17-year-old son looking at pornography and the images of filthy women on the Internet. Plus he started talking somce Communist manifesto stuff and once said he was going to install Lunix on our home machine.

I am not a violent man, but from good father's perspective I had to whip out my belt and show him that's the road to hell. That changed his perspective entirely, so right now he's quite happy using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows ME and paying for all the applications he uses except some cheap crap, that's so bad they have to give it away for other people to pick up.

I also own 100 shares of Microsoft stock in my portfolio, and so does my wife, so no Lunix talks are permitted in my house, since we are all planning for happy retirement.

Re:Do not annoy the Stallman

[ajs]

Stallman is a jelous developer, and you shall have no others before him!

[O/T] Defending my post

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed, as parent poster, I must admit I had written this down as some thoughts for inclusion in my journal [slashdot.org] at some point. But when I saw the front page, I felt I could post this as a warning, where it might be more visible. Is this a crime?

I am surprised you say it is a karma whore. In fact, I expect I will take a karma HIT for saying what is a contentious point. It's something I feel strongly about, so I post whether you approve or not. But next time think more carefully before branding me as a "whore" please. The term Karma solicitation should be used anyway, as it doesn't have such woman-hating connotations. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Re:Be careful how close you get to Mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

And he even doesn't know about this awfull thing [squarefree.com].

Just a lil humor

[SavedLinuXgeeK]

Does anyone else find it funny that A Dragon type creature, and that a gnome can end up being friends? This just keeps reminding me of shrek, and I hope that gnome never becomes an annoying jack-ass. I will leave that title for SCO.

Mozilla + GNome

[beatnitup]

Gnomzilla! Everyone run for their lives!

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Re:It'd be nice

[jdifool]

The socialists, the communists, the social-democrats, the conservatives, the libertarians, the absenteists.. I have to agree that its getting kind of ridiculous.
Ok, choice is nice and all, but this duplication of thinking and criticism is probably extremely unproductive as a whole for the progress of democracy. It should be enough with 2-3 choices for political parties instead of 20: one or two lightweight ones as the libertarians, and one or two "fully featured" like the democrats and the republicans.

oh wait...

Re:It's genius

[mopslik]

obviously you can't have an OS that isn't tightly integrated with the internet.

Even more: I hear they'll be giving the browser away for free. It's madness, I say! Madness!

Re:Be careful how close you get to Mozilla

[Queuetue]

I was going to mention that you were being a little rough on the parent, until I saw you were beating yourself up... Which I suppose is ok in my book, as long as you know what you're doing. :)

Re:Do not annoy the Stallman

[duffbeer703]

The proper form should be GNU/GNOME/GNU/Linux

Where would GNOME be without GNU tools?

Foundations Saga

[Anonymous Coward]

You know, the 1rst Foundation mets the 2nd Foundation, at last !

Where is Hari Seldon when we need him ? Wait, we've Eric Raymond. Damn, if only Google/Gaia eats them and convert all the people to a single colectivity entity knowed as Googalaxy ! All we'll be happy.

Re:Do not annoy the Stallman

[UserGoogol]

OH NOES! [debian.org]