The past few days have been hectic with loads of fun (12 days working in a row thanks to Fosdem, I can assure you that the week-end is more than welcome :-). I thought it would make sense to compile a list of links that I estimate newsworthy:
- Zbigniew Gandalf Braniecky is joining Mozilla!. Zbigniew is a long-time Mozilla contributor and Mozilla-Europe board member. After spending some time over at Flock, he's back where is heart belongs to! Zbigniew is a very interesting animal: full of energy, he is a developer, a UI-thinker and also evangelist. It's in this last ability that he'll be working on Eastern-Europe, making sure that users have choice and that the Web stays open.
- Mitchell Baker's visit in Europe brought a lot of coverage. Mitchell, get back anytime!
- Ecrans.fr/Libération : Firefox is a public good (proud to see that my picture is used as an illustration!)
- Spiegel.de: nobody can buy the Firefox community
- The Guardian: Wrangling the web into an open future ;
- Reuters has an interesting article about Mozilla in China
- Great interview of Chris Blizzard about being open. Here is his take on the benefit of being open:
Our transparency, code and otherwise, is fundamental to our brand and our ability to say with a straight face that what we're doing is good for the Web. I don't know if we would be successful if we were proprietary, but I do know for a fact that it would have been hard to survive the Netscape collapse, and it would have been impossible to build the global community that we have today. The quality of our product is directly related to our users' ability to report and participate in the resolution of problems. Once again, transparency is important there as well. There are a lot of very good proprietary products out there, but none of them have the same leverage, scale, or scope that we do.
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1 De Hubert Gajewski - 02/03/2008, 11:24
Braniecki, not Braniecky