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  1. It's not just anybody doing this, you know by jonasj · · Score: 1 · on Flock, the New Browser on the Block

    The founder and CEO of Flock is the very same Bart Decrem who co-founded Eazel, the company who gave us Nautilus. He also helped found the GNOME Foundation and used to handle business affairs for the Mozilla Foundation! Check out his bio.

  2. Re:more competition should be a good thing, I hope by MonoSynth · · Score: 1 · on Flock, the New Browser on the Block

    Another hint: Bart Decrem is part of the Flock team and was also part of Eazel

  3. Re:Officially affiliated with the Mozilla Foundati by advid · · Score: 2, Informative · on Flock, the New Browser on the Block

    Not from what I've read. The founder, Bart Decrem, was in charge of marketing and business activities for the Mozilla Foundation. (So sayeth his bio, anyway.) But it seems like they're taking advantage of all the work that went into making it easier to rebrand FireFox earlier this year, and just making a totally new and unrelated browser that happens to share the same core technologies.

    In researching that last paragraph, I came across this blog entry by one of the developers, which has a nice summary of press/blogger reactions to Flock.

  4. Re:Officially affiliated with the Mozilla Foundati by advid · · Score: 2, Informative · on Flock, the New Browser on the Block

    Not from what I've read. The founder, Bart Decrem, was in charge of marketing and business activities for the Mozilla Foundation. (So sayeth his bio, anyway.) But it seems like they're taking advantage of all the work that went into making it easier to rebrand FireFox earlier this year, and just making a totally new and unrelated browser that happens to share the same core technologies.

    In researching that last paragraph, I came across this blog entry by one of the developers, which has a nice summary of press/blogger reactions to Flock.

  5. Re:Based off of Konqueror? by nazh · · Score: 2, Informative · on Flock, the New Browser on the Block

    I hate to reply to myself, but this screen shot of flock 0.1 confirms that it is based on firefox. http://flickr.com/photos/87617152@N00/31057629
    Taken from the flock blog http://www.decrem.com/bart/2005/08/done-flock-01-2 /

  6. Re:putting a face to the words by Andrewkov · · Score: 1 · on Bart Decrem on the Linux Business

    I think you linked to the wrong page. The real bart is here. And he's calling KDE ugly!

  7. putting a face to the words by __aanonl8035 · · Score: 4, Funny · on Bart Decrem on the Linux Business

    For some reason, I always like to get a visual of who is being interviewed... so I searched around and found his home page with some pictures here

  8. Re:what about abi word? by Skeezix · · Score: 2 · on Helix Code Profiled in Boston Globe
    I'm not entirely sure what you mean. AbiSuite is included with the Helix Code distribution, along with dia, gnumeric, and gnucash as part of the Gnome office section. See the list of packages if you don't believe me. Now, what the future holds is still uncertain. Especially since it seems now that Star Office will be modularized, bonoboized, and become Gnome Office in one form or another. Still, there may be high enough demand for a lightweight, fast word processor like AbiWord for Helix Code to include it in their distribution of Gnome. And that'll be sweet. Think of the choices you'll have! But either way, even if they choose to remove AbiWord from their distribution of Gnome, you can always download it and install it yourself. AbiWord isn't part of Gnome proper, anyway. It's really an add-on application by a third-part free software developer, AbiSource.

    As far as your comments regarding the Gnome Foundation go, I would encourage you to read the Draft Charter. There's a lot of good stuff in there. It's heavily modeled on the Apache Foundation. The Foundation isn't just a bunch of companies dictating policy. In fact, that's precisely what it isn't. I, for one, happen to be a member of the Gnome Foundation, and I have contributed relatively little. They're very open to letting contributors be voting members, and very opposed to the Foundation being dictated by corporate policy. I'll give you some quotations from the charter to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:

    In almost every sense of the word, GNOME is an open project. This is one of our greatest strengths, has always been, and should be the balefire by which we plot our course into the future.

    The foundation should not be exclusionary or elitist. Every GNOME contributor, however small his or her contribution, must have the opportunity to participate in determining the direction and actions of the project.

    The openness of GNOME has always been a point of pride for us, and an important characteristic which distinguishes us from many of the other open source projects out there. Anyone can become a contributor, write access to our CVS does not involve trial by fire or other masonic rituals, we don't use Access Control Lists, and we've always been exceedingly good about folding talented newcomers in our arms and welcoming them to the project. No resume required.

    Participation in the foundation is intended only for those people who are responsible for actual contributions to the software which makes up GNOME. A corporation, organization or individual should not be granted a place in the foundation unless its presence is justified by the merits of its contribution. Money cannot buy influence in the GNOME project: show us the code (or documentation, or translations, or leadership, or webmastering...).

    The foundation must act in the best interests of GNOME, independent of influence from outside organizations and corporations. No single entity should have the ability to direct GNOME to its own ends.

    I hope some of this helps...
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