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17th June 2008
Firefox 3.0 released - Mozilla site down
Wine 1.0 released - Wine HQ down
Spore creature creator released - Site down
I'm going down the pub...
*edit*
I was half expecting the long overdue (unless I missed it) DV newsletter to make an appearance today as well
just to top it off
The DV newsletter is still unfortunately in the planning stages. :?
Most internet maintenance gets done on Tuesdays, that's probably all it is. Or else they were overwhelmed with requests and the systems went down due to that, Firefox and Wine are open source and don't really have big budgets for servers.
Mozilla is loaded, and besides most significant open source software is "sponsored" (read: support contracted) by large companies nowadays anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
So much for no-munies involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Identity X
Neither http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ nor http://www.winehq.org/ was down for me today.
The newsletter is coming very soon.
Our latest deadline is less that two weeks, however i'm pushing it to the weekend, i think its important we get something out there. So don't worry, it may not appear as though much is going on but a lot will be taking place in the forum over the next few days to push this thing out.
I promise :)
I have to start writing my thing sometime...
Wine might be sponsored by Sun, but I'm pretty sure that Firefox pays for itself via advertising and it still independent of big corporations.
I had no trouble snagging Spore (tho it won't work with my GPU), but I've tried Mozilla 3-4 times today, and no luck.
EDIT: Ha! As I was typing this, I got through.
That's news to me. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
I was guessing, note the word 'might'
I just guessed because Sun usually helps push the Linux open source stuff like OOo
It was leaked, not released...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ynot
Yes, that's why they're giving out the trial version on their website.
Yeah but that's a different "might." Your original quote was "Wine might be sponsored by Sun, but I'm pretty sure that Firefox pays for itself... ." The word "might" in the "[subject] might [predicate], but ..." construction has a different meaning than "possibly." I'm pretty sure you were stating the same thing as "While Wine is sponsored by Sun, I'm pretty sure that Firefox pays for itself... ." That's how I use that construction anyway. Silly semantics. /* We should focus more on syntax. */ :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Wine's sponsors are CodeWeavers, Corel, and Google.
Does Corel still make an office suite? Word Perfect was always so much better than Word.
oh that creature creator is sooo cool! I've been playing with it for like three days. I mean you only get 25% of the parts( more like 20% heads wise) and it still rules.:P
Yeah, and makes a fortune from it. So much for the "no money for servers" argument. Also: Mozilla is pretty much dependent on Google, because that's where most of it's revenue comes from. The same with Opera; whilst some revenue comes from selling their mobile versions, the largest revenue comes from Yahoo! and Google. Basically any pre-set search bar in Firefox or Opera is paid for.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578