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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Mr Firefox looks to the future

Credit: Dan DeLong/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Todd Bishop, a reporter with Seattle P-I, interviewed Blake Ross during the Gnomedex conference. There's a print version from the paper and a full transcript on the blog.

Incidentally, the best guide to a minor spat at Gnomedex, between Blake Ross and Dave Winer, is on Ross's blog, and Winer also clarifies the issues.

I wasn't at Gnomedex, but it seems Ross used slides "mocking people who see Firefox as part of a jihad to punish Microsoft" (Winer's words) and Winer missed the point that they were mockery. Your life will not be impoverished if you skip the whole episode. The only thing worth taking away is Ross's final statement: "My philosophy is very simple: serving users is the only reason I work in the software industry. I don't care about competitors unless they impede my ability to do that."

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