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Mitch Kapor Warns Against Firefox Gloating

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the he-says-other-stuff-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mitch Kapor, Lotus co-founder and president and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation, says open-source advocates should be relatively cautious and avoid making claims and predictions despite the huge success of Firefox. He also briefly touches on Chandler in a ZDNet interview. Chandler is OSAF's personal information manager which will offer e-mail, calendaring, address and task management. The goal for Chandler, Kapor says, is to make it as successful and popular as Firefox."

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  1. No Gloating?!? by drsmack1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, they want to take the joy out of life? What about all past gloating; surely there is enough of that - enough to more than make up for any future gloating deficit.

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    Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind

    1. Re:No Gloating?!? by chriseyre2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      They are very innovative in the shrewd marketing and getting away with abusing a monopoly fields.

  2. Thanks for the advice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Mitch Kapor, Lotus co-founder ... says open-source advocates should be relatively cautious and avoid making claims and predictions

    This from the guy who helped bring us Lotus Notes? Perhaps YOU should be more cautious about ignoring the requests of your user base.

    /me hits F9 to refresh

  3. Re:first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like Windows XP Home Edition.

    It is the most powerful operating-system for Pee Cees. It looks not as gay as Mac OS X by Steve B10 Jobs and has 1,0000,0000 times more softwares that the Linus-operating-system.

    Plus, it comes with every Pee Cee for free. People who have grown acusstomt to paying RatHat 699 $$$ or more can hardly beleive this when I consult them with my proffesional Internet- and Network-Service-Center-Bureau.

    Wehn I have a new customer, I take him to the back-room to show him the "alternative" to XP Home, which is Suse Linux 9.0.
    I have set-up an old Pentium 133Hz and a small monochrome monitor to show teh customer what Linux looks and feels like.

    I have it set-up so it runs a fullscreen-Flash-splash-screen on the KDE3.3beta-desktop. It takes 13 min until the mouse cursor responds.

    The customer will them make a sound like: "BAH!"

    Then I tell them: "See, this is how it is if we let the communists make software."
    Then we have a good laugh, wich is psycologicallish valuable for the customer-relatively.

    I always tell them:
    "Windows XP Home Edition is all you can do to embiggen the producationality of your human resourcers and empower to leverage the outcome-bottomlime of your stickholder ... plus even more!"

    My customers usually are like: "OMG!"

    You should really try it one day; it has a very nice light-reddish color theme to hit your tastes.

    Thank you!

  4. Good Luck by krough · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The goal for Chandler, Kapor says, is to make it as successful and popular as Firefox."

    It's healthy to have goals.

  5. Don't tell me.. by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mitch Kapor warns against gloating?? MITCH KAPOR??? Mitch Kapor telling someone not to gloat is like a crack fiend telling.. Wait, who the hell is Mitch Kapor, and what's this Lotus you speak of?

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  6. Thundercougarfalconbird! by khasim · · Score: 3, Funny

    Salesman: "Nothing makes you feel more like a man than a Thundercougarfalconbird."