nytimes.com— The people behind Firefox have a dilemma: what happens when an open-source project starts to become successful?
May 21, 2007View in Crawl 4
I think as users we don't have too much to worry about. Someone will always come up with a better alternative. When Firefox gets too big and bloated, there will probably be another choice for us and it will be a new Firefox all over again for us to make popular.Right now I would not use any other browser besides Firefox but I'm sure someone will come up with something better. Then Firefox will have to play catch up just as IE does today. At this time, nothing could be less useful to me than IE but someday that could well happen to Firefox too.
Easy, they should give the money back to the community. Giving money to code projects just like Google Summer of code. Investing some in in the AD business. Not a lot of course, the money needs to stays in the Open Source community.They could finance server costs for open source projects... Basically, give the money back to the commmunity, instead of splitting 100 millions by 90 employees. Mozilla is supposed to be open source. Who likes to code for a project like that when he knows that people are getting paid for his *free* work ?
Mozilla should bring back the Mozilla Suite. There are still lots of improvements to be made to Firefox like speed optimization, integrated mouse gestures, zooming, custom css, voice control, custom tab/menu placement, custom browser id etc. With theese they will defeat Opera...They should spend some time convincing major computer dealers to sell Windows N with Firefox (preinstalled or cd's). Allso they should focus on developing open-source pluggins for VideoLAN and alternatives to Adobe Flash.
itsme92May 21, 2007
ooh, ooh, you can write MS with a $ sign!you're a clever one, aren't you!
darkheroMay 21, 2007
Yea firefox is way too f**king big. IE is very fast in Vista. But It doesn't seem right to me. When IE adopts web standards, I will switch!
ed67May 22, 2007
I think as users we don't have too much to worry about. Someone will always come up with a better alternative. When Firefox gets too big and bloated, there will probably be another choice for us and it will be a new Firefox all over again for us to make popular.Right now I would not use any other browser besides Firefox but I'm sure someone will come up with something better. Then Firefox will have to play catch up just as IE does today. At this time, nothing could be less useful to me than IE but someday that could well happen to Firefox too.
chaperonnoirMay 22, 2007
Easy, they should give the money back to the community. Giving money to code projects just like Google Summer of code. Investing some in in the AD business. Not a lot of course, the money needs to stays in the Open Source community.They could finance server costs for open source projects... Basically, give the money back to the commmunity, instead of splitting 100 millions by 90 employees. Mozilla is supposed to be open source. Who likes to code for a project like that when he knows that people are getting paid for his *free* work ?
stegreMay 22, 2007
Mozilla should bring back the Mozilla Suite. There are still lots of improvements to be made to Firefox like speed optimization, integrated mouse gestures, zooming, custom css, voice control, custom tab/menu placement, custom browser id etc. With theese they will defeat Opera...They should spend some time convincing major computer dealers to sell Windows N with Firefox (preinstalled or cd's). Allso they should focus on developing open-source pluggins for VideoLAN and alternatives to Adobe Flash.
stevemaxMay 22, 2007
Why would that be...