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So what do you think of free source 191
think its the coolest thing ever invented ttr%/
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Source wants to be free jAV4 4i
Im writer for the Examiner .. Karen is programmer and an owner of an
Internet service provider She would be good person to ask
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Where did the name Mozilla come from
LT Mosaic-killer Moz Mozilla is Mosaic-killer
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...what youre doing with Netscape now and what you think what theyve done
by releasing the source code how you think thats going to affect their business
Well think what its going to do is its going to give them huge leg up on uh
companies like Netscape uh Microsoft that have to always look at revenue
model for their product Whereas here what we have is an opportunity for
thousands of people to create applications that will really help people without being
driven in by monetary or financial urn aspect and thatll let people really reach
out and help people for what they need instead of creating something where we
have to make money off of it all the time And think when you look at the
Internet the Web things like LINUX and the GNU project you see that that
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theres been really incredible amount of um syncronicity and diversity thats
come out of that And thats really what the Web is all about you know theres
always theres this fight between whos going to make money or whos going to
create useful application And think when you look at places like place like
Yahoo and some of the leaders you see that they really had...in mind what users
wanted and what would help people above and beyond what what was going to
like put money in the bank or pay big paychecks
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Well Ive written about your free software...most obvious one is Send Mail which
is used on lot of the uh Internet for sending electronic mail In fact Ive just
founded company that is trying to do something much like what uh uh Netscape
is doing were giving away the major piece of the software and then were going
to build the company around support uh building things for the commercial
market that sort of thing So think this is really cool mean this is the right way
to do it uh they should have done it all along
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OK well my take is that uh fundamentally the concept of proprietary software is
probably not good one for the long term things mean maybe if you have the
resources of Microsoft but dont even think they can do it just too many people
out there that can work on big code base ye found this to be very effective in
my work ..bunch of ways you can do this mean part of it is...people will like
me come up with company that provides support or something so the code is
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free but the oucsed people who need support pay for that and this is good deal
for everyone Um another way uh is that well OK how are people going to get
compensated thats actually you know consulting thats the kind of thing
companies are going to do uh base product is free theyre going to provide other
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add-ons that be additional value Urn an example encryption is something that
because of the bizarre laws in the US you cant put in your free software base So
people are going to make money selling that kind of stuff Maybe thats not the best
example cause its not from good root but that is what will happen in fact youve
seen it with Netscape where these folks in Australia are now putting the encryption
back in its really interesting to see how the community works together
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.for what Netscapes doing and weve met people who are involved in the free
source community and who are just starting businesses that are pretty excited
about the new model and are actually starting businesses based on it tonight..
You bet mean you can feel it hem at the party mean...theres movement going
on to do open source mean thats .. people have turned out here mean this
club is hem every night of the week Theyre here for Mozilla and theyre here for
open source and you know were just happy to be part of it now think its
going to lead to some really big things
Well think Netscapes really desperate is going to release its open uh code to the
market obviously Microsoft because of their uh dominance in the uh operating
system has an opportunity to lock uh the uh Navigator .. Internet navigation
client in place and uh theyre losing market share Netscape is and uh this is
desperation move really in order to uh try to hop out ahead of Microsoft and even
if they do temporarily it wont last because as long as whoever owns the operating
system will also own whatever software gets bundled in with the operating system
Right But what do you think about the idea that if youre starting
company...keep changing with the times
Well definitely you have to keep adopting your business model you have to keep
adapting what youre doing own small company the way that we started
months ago and what we were doing isnt what were doing today so of course
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you have to change with the times Im just not sure that this strategy is going to
help Netscape at all In fact dont think its going to make an iota of difference in
Microsofts becoming the dominant browser That doesnt mean that Netscape
wont exist mean all they have to do is show up to the party because after all
there are only two players in the Internet browser business or the Internet back end
business So even if Microsoft has 70 or 80 percent of the uh market you know
someone will always own 20 percent of the market you know the question is will
that 20 percent be enough to support company the size of Netscape
Is that due to the quality factor or is that distribution availability
No its has everything to do with distribution Distribution is key to this
business as long as you can reach desktops as long as you have channels open to
you thats what matters you have to own the channels of distribution
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Do you feel like theres lot of support in the community at large
It looks that way yeah. .pretty much...go get drink
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..Tell us your feelings it seems like theres lot of support in the community for
whats happening
It seems like theres lot of support in the community That is if they survive
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Who are you here to congratulate anybody special
Were here to congratulate everyone Its an open source open party
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feels great dont think youre going to get whole lot of eloquence out of me
tonight was worshipping the porcelain goddess...what was the one she used
uh was driving the big white bus that was it 5o a2
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