Jack-
Mozilla does sound like a great platform.
One issue is the license. If you aren't careful, the code you develop
becomes Netscape's property under their license. I think this can be
avoided if you put the code in separate files (but review the license
before counting on this).
I liked the email client idea discussed earlier in part because of the
peer-to-peer nature. Using Mozilla might fit into this.
My biggest concern is that Mozilla was designed as I understand it in
the typical huge fashion -- with megabytes of source and so forth. This
is probably because it is mostly in C/C++. A system written in Squeak
Smalltalk (or Java or Python or Lisp) might be much more elegant and
smaller and easier to understand and modify and bootstrap. Still,
Mozilla-related work might have a big audience.
By the way, this article says there is lots of VC interest in funding
peer-to-peer computing efforts at the moment.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2598097,00.html
-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software
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Developers of custom software and educational simulations
Creators of the Garden with Insight(TM) garden simulator
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com
> Jack Park wrote:
>
> The OHS needs a platform to serve as its foundation. We have discussed
> a variety of approaches to the construction of such a platform,
> including Zope, Java, and others. One that came up is Mozilla. Here
> is a report that, I think, illustrates the power of the Mozilla
> platform. These folks talk about the construction of an arcade game
> on it. Yes, Martha, arcade games don't push any buttons out in
> hyperdocument land, but the discussion does cover many of the Mozilla
> benefits.
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/06/30/magazine/mozilla_game.html
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