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Crib Sheet: Mozilla's Mitch Kapor, Lotus-Leafer or Berkeley Agitator?
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| Just how do you go about introducing Mitch
| Kapor? Designer of Lotus 1-2-3, founder of
| the Open Source Applications Foundation,
| first chair of the Mozilla Foundation,
| current chair of OneWebDay.. oh, blah, let's
| leave it up to his Twitter bio. "Tech
| entrepreneur, startup investor, activist
| philanthropist."
|
| Mitch Kapor, Born in Brooklyn and now
| residing in San Francisco, is a mogul of
| many colors--although mostly green. The
| Lotus Development Corporation, Mozilla
| Foundation and Open Source Applications
| Foundation are all doing good work for the
| world thanks to him--and he took over the
| chair of OneWebDay after its founder, Susan
| P. Crawford, went to work for President
| Obama. If you could draw a simple venn
| diagram to show the overlap between
| technology and doing good, Mitch would be at
| its heart.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1579486/crib-sheet-mitch-kapor-founder-of-lotus-chair-of-mozilla-foundation
Mozilla gives passive-aggressive missive to pre-Firefox 3.6 hold-outs
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| Mozilla has begun shepherding Firefox fans
| through the browser door marked 3.6, in a
| move to encourage users to upgrade to the
| open source outfit's latest surfing tool.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/mozilla_upgrade_to_firefox_3_6_nowwwwwww/
Mozilla pitches Firefox 3.6 upgrade offer to users
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| Mozilla yesterday began offering Firefox 3.6
| to users running older versions of the open-
| source browser.
|
| Thursday's offer was the first coordinated
| invitation to Firefox 3.6 that Mozilla has
| displayed to users of 2008's Firefox 3.0 and
| mid-2009's Firefox 3.5.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9170058/Mozilla_pitches_Firefox_3.6_upgrade_offer_to_users
Related:
Looking beyond the open source battle
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| Since it launched in 2004, Firefox has chipped
| away at Internet Explorer's market share and
| established itself as the world's second most
| popular browser. But while attacks on open
| source still make Kapor's blood boil, he
| suggests that the bigger picture indicates
| that resistance is futile.
|
| "What's remarkable is that nobody remarks on
| it, because a few years ago people were
| virtually pulling out their guns to shoot at
| each other â and now it's a settled matter, as
| I read it."
|
| While Firefox is widely regarded as a huge
| success, Kapor warns that it is not actually
| the best example of the victory of open
| source. Instead, he suggests, the movement's
| main achievement actually lies out of sight â
| amid the systems that underpin the web itself.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/21/mitch-kapor-open-source
Looking beyond the open source battle
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| Since it launched in 2004, Firefox has chipped
| away at Internet Explorer's market share and
| established itself as the world's second most
| popular browser. But while attacks on open
| source still make Kapor's blood boil, he
| suggests that the bigger picture indicates
| that resistance is futile.
|
| "What's remarkable is that nobody remarks on
| it, because a few years ago people were
| virtually pulling out their guns to shoot at
| each other â and now it's a settled matter, as
| I read it."
|
| While Firefox is widely regarded as a huge
| success, Kapor warns that it is not actually
| the best example of the victory of open
| source. Instead, he suggests, the movement's
| main achievement actually lies out of sight â
| amid the systems that underpin the web itself.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/21/mitch-kapor-open-source
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