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1. Switching gears..
2. Is one of the things that comes with Open Source is Open Resignations? It seems so. Early this week Eric S. Raymond, perhaps the most visible open source advocate, publicly resigned, and then a day later, changed his mind. I understand, I go thru those kinds of loops, sometimes several times a day!
3. Then today, Jamie Zawinski, the leader of Mozilla.Org, the open source group managing the former Netscape browser, resigned, with a public statement that revealed problems with the development process for the only browser that's (currently) taken seriously as an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
4. http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
5. Zawinski exposes problems that were obvious to the informed outsider. For many reasons, the open source project, now a year old, didn't gain traction. Now with Zawinski leaving, the doubts are publicly visible to anyone, such as myself, who cares about having an alternative to the Microsoft browser. If you've got an investment in the web, it's time to think. What's the future of the web if Microsoft has no serious competition? Think think think.
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