vendredi 7 avril 2006

Prague, here I come!

I'll leave Paris for Prague on Sunday night, planning to do tons of things during my first visit to Czech Republic. Among them: deliver a talk about Mozilla, Open Source and Governments; meet with members of the press; spend some time on LinuxExpo; hopefully see a demo of AllPeers while meeting with  […]

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lundi 3 avril 2006

Purpose-driven software development

The New York Times features a great article: Death by Smiley Face: When Rivals Disdain Profit, explaining why some players in the media business are dangerous since they don't play for the money, but for some other reason, whether it's the public good or the pleasure to publish. Richard Siklos, the  […]

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mardi 28 mars 2006

The Mozilla project, its community, and funding

Mitchell just blogged about Grants and Donations. As always, her post is worth reading (even when she writes about trapeze there is a lesson to be learnt). Also, ZDNet ran an interview on the same topic. I have been discussing with Chris Beard, Mitchell and Mozilla Europe board members how we could  […]

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jeudi 23 mars 2006

French law, Copyright, our digital future and the iPod

The Web is buzzing about Apple being about to abandon the French market, due to a French law that would force them to open their DRM. Om Malik writes the French desire to get rid of DRM absolutely ridiculous. Engadget writes French National Assembly approved an ostensibly anti-DRM bill against  […]

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jeudi 2 mars 2006

Fosdem 2006 post-mortem

I thought I'd sent this by email to a few folks, but who needs email when you have a blog? On the weekend of February 25th and 26th, 2006, the European Mozilla Developers and Localizers Meeting was held in Brussels, during Fosdem. Thanks a million to all those who helped making this event a success.  […]

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jeudi 2 février 2006

Why you should not sit at the front row during a Novell demo by Nat Friedman...

... you're being asked to stand up and: Look happy Look angry Lood sad ... all in front of a very large crowd, with pictures taken and immediately uploaded to Flickr. The actual advantage of sitting at the front row is the ability to enjoy are really amazing Desktop Linux demo. Nat did a great job  […]

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lundi 23 janvier 2006

Mozilla was announced 8 years ago (plus one day :-)

On Jan. 22nd, 1998, the following press release was put on the wire: Netscape Announces Plans to Make Next-Generation Communicator Source Code Available Free on the Net. It was just 8 years ago. Now that Firefox is such a success (ZDNet.co.uk writes Firefox 'passes 20 percent market share' in  […]

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jeudi 12 janvier 2006

Marketing 101

Let's consider the following facts: Sex sells; Firefox is hot; Google offers 1$ to webmasters every time a visitor clicks on a Firefox/Google button and installs Firefox with the Google Toolbar; What about creating a Web site where a good-looking blonde would undress herself on video, but the video  […]

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