Interview With Mr. Firefox

Winga

Blake Ross was a teenager when he and fellow software developer Dave Hyatt launched the Mozilla Firefox project. This community-made Web browser has won devoted fans and taken market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Ross was available for an interview at the Gnomedex technology conference where he spoke about Firefox's future, its relationship with Google, Microsoft's practices in the browser market and his own plans.

Asked about Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's next Web browser, he pulled no punches about their lack of innovation, saying they haven't delivered anything beyond what Firefox currently offers.
He feels Microsoft is directly responsible for spyware and adware and the pop-up ads in general, blaming their abandonment of their product IE6 for 5 years due to non-profitability.

People ask me, "Well, gee, if IE7 is starting to catch up to Firefox, and if they've got their hand back in development right now, and eventually they might actually catch up to Firefox in terms of features, what's the benefit of using Firefox? Why are you guys still around if you say that your only goal is just to make the Web a better place?"

My answer to that is, how much can you really trust a company that five years ago completely left you abandoned? If they do, in fact, succeed in taking back some of the market share that Firefox has gotten back from them, who's to say that they're not going to disappear again? My issue is not so much at a product level; it's at a company level. How do you trust a company that left everyone out in the cold for five years?

Read the full interview HERE

Source: SeattlePi

airbornflght

Good read, that guy is awesome.

sfleuriet

He's my god

Leonardo

Thanks for the link, Winga. That was a very interesting interview. Much respect for that young man. Inspiring.