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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. Re:irony? by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not necessarily gloating, just being proud of your accomplishments. He also said how there is no guarantee that Firefox will increase in popularity. I think he's just being "cautiously optimistic" as people like to say now.

  2. the guy is not dismissing firefox's success... by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 5, Insightful
    He is on Mozilla's board for crying out loud. He is simply saying that the battle is far from over. A valid observation.

    Kapor's put a lot of time, money, and probably other resources into open source. They are many who just talk a good game, and then there are others like Kapor who put millions into open source.

    But hey, don't let that get in the way of a perfectly good lynching.

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  3. It's not "gloating", it's "marketing". by khasim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Predict massive gains by extrapolating from a very recent improvement in a very small segment of your market.

    Keep boasting about the features your product has that your competitor doesn't. Remind everyone that they need those specific features.

    Keep telling the "journalists" out there about how your product handles the same tasks better than the competition. Faster. Smaller footprint. Better security. Easier administration.

    If someone hasn't heard of your product, they aren't going to try your product.

    Get out there and GLOAT.