Re: Mozilla for OS 9

In article <[email protected]>,
 "Adilson Soares Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks very much for your answer.
> 
> But why there's a version of the lastest build of mozilla for other
> operating systems like AIX, Irix, OS/2...?
> 
> Wow, who uses OS/2????????
> 
> There's much more people using Mac OS 9 than this other OS's. I believe. :-)

This is true. Heck, there's more people using "old" Mac OS than people 
using OS X -- or Linux for that matter.

However, the rationale here is that OS 9 and earlier are "dead." There 
are a lot of people speaking Latin these days (mostly devout Catholics 
and bored schoolchildren) but that doesn't mean Latin is staging a 
comeback.

Inasmuch as no further dev work is being done on OS 9, the decision was 
taken (correctly, in my view) to cease expending the time and $$ needed 
to continue development. By the time Longhorn actually comes out, Mac OS 
X will have around 50% share of the Mac base, and that will go up slowly 
as the years roll on. Mac OS X is the future of Mac development, so it 
makes sense to focus on that.
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