The software is the open source project WordPress.org, which is quality software. Much to the benefit of the quality WordPress.com service that we run.
Good on you Ice Station Zebra for having a link handy to an incident from the over 6 years ago, from before Automattic was even founded, and which Matt took personal responsibility for http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/
Yes, Flock is being developed on and for MSWin, MacOS, and Linux. A slight majority of the developers do their work primarily on Linux. It is not "written in java". I think you have us confused with a SourceForge project. The Flock browser is directly based on Firefox.
Playing nice with other people and technologies is very important to us!
As much as possibly we will make things technically extensions, and we already are in conversation with Mozilla in how we can best work with them -- we are well connected with the excellent people at Mozilla;-)
We are building a browser in the general sense. We will be delivering a complete browser while keeping up with Firefox's security and technology. Delivering a complete browser makes a lot of sense to me, because we can control the underlying Firefox source code that we are interacting with while perpetually improving and extending the experience of Flock -- a moving base for a large development effort is not fun;-). Maybe as XUL Runner matures our distribution method will change.
We will be open source -- we are still dotting the 'I's with the lawyers. As legally required by the MPL the people that have already received the Flock browser do have access to our MPL modified files. If you really want the code, I can get it to you;-) Once the lawyers are done, all of our code will be open source.
Firefox is too fantastic of a development platform for us not to do everything possible not to hurt it or its community. We feel that the Flock browser will complement the Firefox browser. We are targetting a much, much smaller (but growing) group of users -- you know who you are;-) And because we are not trying to be the browser that meets everyone's needs -- which Firefox does an amazing job at -- we can try some different things;-)
I do not see Google ads fitting directly into our own offering, but what do I know, I try to stay out of the biz stuff as long as it does not interfere with the user experience. We are negotiating with the all major search providers (Yahoo, Google, etc) and other partners to finance our browser development. We are already working with leading partners in many of the specialized social software spaces! We are trying to be the medium for connecting all of these awesome emerging services.
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The software is the open source project WordPress.org, which is quality software. Much to the benefit of the quality WordPress.com service that we run.
Good on you Ice Station Zebra for having a link handy to an incident from the over 6 years ago, from before Automattic was even founded, and which Matt took personal responsibility for http://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/
Yes, Flock is being developed on and for MSWin, MacOS, and Linux. A slight majority of the developers do their work primarily on Linux. It is not "written in java". I think you have us confused with a SourceForge project. The Flock browser is directly based on Firefox.
Playing nice with other people and technologies is very important to us!
As much as possibly we will make things technically extensions, and we already are in conversation with Mozilla in how we can best work with them -- we are well connected with the excellent people at Mozilla ;-)
We are building a browser in the general sense. We will be delivering a complete browser while keeping up with Firefox's security and technology. Delivering a complete browser makes a lot of sense to me, because we can control the underlying Firefox source code that we are interacting with while perpetually improving and extending the experience of Flock -- a moving base for a large development effort is not fun ;-). Maybe as XUL Runner matures our distribution method will change.
We will be open source -- we are still dotting the 'I's with the lawyers. As legally required by the MPL the people that have already received the Flock browser do have access to our MPL modified files. If you really want the code, I can get it to you ;-) Once the lawyers are done, all of our code will be open source.
Firefox is too fantastic of a development platform for us not to do everything possible not to hurt it or its community. We feel that the Flock browser will complement the Firefox browser. We are targetting a much, much smaller (but growing) group of users -- you know who you are ;-) And because we are not trying to be the browser that meets everyone's needs -- which Firefox does an amazing job at -- we can try some different things ;-)
I have logged the bug ;-) Thank you for letting us know about this, and sorry for any inconvience.
I do not see Google ads fitting directly into our own offering, but what do I know, I try to stay out of the biz stuff as long as it does not interfere with the user experience. We are negotiating with the all major search providers (Yahoo, Google, etc) and other partners to finance our browser development. We are already working with leading partners in many of the specialized social software spaces! We are trying to be the medium for connecting all of these awesome emerging services.