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Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft
ChrisMDP writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting interview with Mitch Kapor, the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation. They discuss, amongst other things, what it's like competing with Microsoft, and Firefox as an operating system." From the interview: "Pragmatically, I think we have to distinguish between a base set of extensions and everything else. It gets progressively more difficult to create seamless solutions when there are nearly infinite possibilities for customization and tweaking of settings. There's a basic tension in principle that can never be completely resolved."
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what does roman polansky think about this?
I disagree that they have sacrificed product quality and user benefit over and over again. Well, maybe not about the product quality... Most people find their applications "good enough". Which, when you think about it is enough. It's impossible to get to 100% user benefit mark, so you get to a reasonable level and call it a product.
They may have tipped the playing field in their favor, but certainly not because they sacrificed product quality and user benefit. If anything, they realized what all businesses/people realize -- a level playing field both sucks and never exists. Somebody is always better than another people/company and they would be foolish not to exploit that (think job interview, sports, whatever). So MS realized that marketing was important -> educate the market -> influence market -> sell product.
They certainly went too far with certain tactics, but saying "sacrificing product quality and user benefit" tipped the playing field in their favor is just not true.