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Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the welcome-to-mozzOS dept.

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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  1. Firefox is slowly winning the war by lokalhost · · Score: 5, Informative

    from Securityfocus.com: as of January 2005, SecurityFocus readers using Firefox (46%) eclipsed Internet Explorer users (44%) in our traffic logs for the first time ever. I just can't wait for similar numbers hitting msn.com -- I must be a zealot for bashing microsoft.

  2. Re:um... by ggvaidya · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mitch Kapor is Mozilla foundation chairman (scroll down).

    Mitchell Baker is Chief Lizard Wrangler (also Foundation president).

  3. Re:xul by jacoplane · · Score: 4, Informative

    XUL ides. Ok not much, but it's a start. Personally I feel Mozilla should also start some development projects. Mozilla is no longer working on the composer, that is now being sponsored by Linspire. I think a push from Mozilla to build a XUL ide is a very good idea.