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Tristan Nitot responds to Chris Messina

May 11th, 2007 by Gen Kanai

Tristan Nitot, who works for Mozilla but is not speaking for Mozilla in this case, responds to Chris Messina’s video critique of Mozilla.

Mozilla is very successful in launching a new major version of Firefox every 12 months or so. But let’s face it: it is hard. Really hard. Do we want to slow down our development process in order to become a platform on a third level (on top of the Web and Extensions)? One of the biggest advantages that Mozilla has over Microsoft, it’s that we’re moving faster. Giving up on our ability to release often (which is something very important, considering our Open Source / Free Software nature) in order to become a platform is a very tough choice…

This part of Tristan’s response was most salient to me, but the whole thing is good.  Please check it out.  Note that this is not an official response from Mozilla, just one community member speaking to another.

Responding to Chris Messina – Standblog

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One Response to “Tristan Nitot responds to Chris Messina”

  1. Rafael Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 12:55 am

    people don’t get that shipping software is hard do they? Especially one that’s like so extremely complicated like a web browser.

    I’m not really sure why Chris is mouthing off. He has half-ass assessments because he doesn’t have the whole picture.

    Mind you, it’s not perfect at Mozilla and won’t ever be, there’s some strategies I question but the system and the people are in place and it’s an absolutely strong org.