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Ars Technica Interviews Scott Collins
SnoopTodd writes "Ars Technica has an interview with Scott Collins of Mozilla. 'That's the thing I learned to lust after as a programmer. It's not my ability to solve one problem, to plow this field, but the ability to build a plow that every farmer uses. The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. I want Mozilla to be there again. IE is a browser with no soul. I want it to be Mozilla because I think that people who care deserve a browser with a soul.'"
...of PURE EVIL! If you look real close you can see a 666 under help/about.
That's the thing I learned to lust after as a programmer. It's not my ability to solve one problem, to plow this field, but the ability to build a plow that every farmer uses. The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. ...and here I am lusting over boobs.
Then again maybe IE sold it's soul to Milhouse for five bucks..
Beings aspergers AND pulling chicks... I enjoy the challenge!
When it comes to "soul" no browser can compare to the "Sacred editor".
Stallman 3:16!
There was a fundamental mistake made by Netscape management, twice, which cost us a release at the most inopportune time. I think we can attribute a great deal of our market share loss to this mistake that was pretty much based completely on lies from one executive, who has since left the company (and left very rich) and who was an impediment to everything that we did. He was an awful person, and it is completely on him that we missed a release. We had a "Netscape 5" that was within weeks of being ready to go, and this person said that we needed to ship something based on Gecko within 6 months instead. Every single engineer in the company told management "No, it will be two years at least before we ship something based on Gecko." Management agreed with the engineers in order to get 5.0 out.a
Three months later they came back and said "We've changed our mind, this other executive has convinced us, except now instead of six months, you need to do it in three months." Well, you can't put 50 pounds of [crap] in a ten pound bag, it took two years. And we didn't get out a 5.0, and that cost of us everything, it was the biggest mistake ever, and I put it all on the feet of this one individual, whom I will not name.
Aww, c'mon, who is it? You don't want us to accidentally hire him, do you?
i think he is confused. by soul he means tabs.
-ninjaneer
> netscape 4 sucked scissors
Thank you for adding this expression to the vernacular, pbranes. I can guarantee you that 'sucks scissors' will be my favorite euphemism for not being any good for quite a while. =)
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Just what we need, a browser that screams "Yeeooooooow! Gootgawd! Huh!" on startup.
The Brownzilla project....
What'dya mean there's no BLINK tag!?
Now I know why al my programs failed to reach sentience.
#include
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
You're telling this to the Slashdot crowd? They aren't getting enough sex in the first place. I hardly think they'd mind if it were lackluster casual sex.
It's scary being a Flash and Flex developer on Slashdot. You guys are unnaturally rabid.
<matrix>MS Longhorn: "What's the use of a browser with soul...if you can't even surf?" </matrix>
insecurity asks the wrong question irritation gives the wrong answer
IE is buggy to the point of being dangerous; inaccessible; and almost devoid of useful features.
Really? And yet it works reliably for me (and hundreds of thousands of others) during marathon surfing sessions. With the exception of tabbing, I never find myself thinking "If only IE had this feature..."
You need to pull your head out of the dark place, and look around at this strange thing called reality.
- sarcasm is just one more service we offer -
Good ol' Slashdot. Where mentions of a "soul" bring countless references to the Simpsons and the episode where Bart sells his soul, but none (that I saw) referring to Faust (sold his soul), South Korea (Captial: Seoul), Dr. Scholl's (in-soles), New Orleans (soul food) or Marvin Gaye (soul music).
It's a sick twisted thing.
Malicious and cruel, it seeks to devour the web, and just cause mayhem.
In my minds eye, it looks something like a gremlin.
To Firebird's mogwai
*grin*
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
...they hate it.
Why not change the logo from a grumpy dino to a picture of James Brown ?
Hey, if the photo is recent enough, no one will notice the difference anyway !
Firefox is better is that IE may well have a soul, but it often has ghosts (popups) and sometimes gets possesed (hijacked, "LET BILL GATES F*CK YOU!!!, YOUR OS SUCKS COCKS IN HELL!!!") where as firefox has a TABBED SOULS open and has a protection from evil 10'radius cast by a 7th level cleric of the church of stallman. That will give you at least +1 more on your save vs. a gnna shocksite.
Sure at first it was some bloated multi-class character under second edition rules and owned by AOL. But now they only level in one class at a time. Like einstein says, god doesn't play dice.... therefore we must make every effort to min-max firefox so that it can level up faster.
The bottom line is you'd never hear a D&D analogy praising IE, you'd only hear it for an OSS browser: THAT my freinds, is a soul. The soul isn't IN the browser you hobgoblins, it's in the community. And whether you are shaking you fist at corporate capitalism, or having a good time no other browser has a soul like firefox.
Three cheers for one of the best examples of OSS. Be damned all you karma-whoring-by-anti-slashdot-groupthinking bastards the groupthink is right on this one. There is a soul in OSS and IE is a frigid disgrace and the most shining example of (three years without update) monopoly stagnation.
Firefox and Jesus save, the rest of you take full damage from the fireball!