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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."
It's this kind of thinking that has set up an enviroment where my 1ghz+, 512mb computer can't do anything more than my 2mhz, 64kb computer could do in the 80's. Heck a c64 with the right programmers behind it can actually be more productive than modern PCs. Thanks to feature creep the OSes have gotten so bloated that it takes the system a thousand times longer to start up. Yes that's right there was a time when a computer was ready to use when you turned it on.
No program should take 14mbs of storage space, especially a web browser, and most certainly not a minimum of 20megs active memory (that bloats well into the 70s given enough time), which is where the latetest realease of firefox is.
Don't get me wrong I like and use Firefox, but it is become as bloated as any other program. I'm just saying there was a time when even GUI OSes fit on a single floppy disk (true that QNX does that to this day, but that is rare). Lets just stop the bloat now.
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