Comments on: Flock discussion to date uniformly positive http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/ greg yardley on internet and mobile marketing Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: moeffju.net http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/comment-page-1/#comment-258 moeffju.net Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:57:50 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=134#comment-258 <strong>Flock Developer Preview</strong> So, I just got the Flock Developer Preview (build 0.4.8). It’s like Firefox on drugs. Blogger drugs. Pretty neat looking, it works (well, it’s basically just rebranded Firefox with some extras), and it might even bring the revolution it so... Flock Developer Preview

So, I just got the Flock Developer Preview (build 0.4.8).

It’s like Firefox on drugs. Blogger drugs. Pretty neat looking, it works (well, it’s basically just rebranded Firefox with some extras), and it might even bring the revolution it so…

]]> By: Scrambled http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Scrambled Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:52:48 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=134#comment-257 I've added this to the Flock site too My comment and hope for this is that it will become the “the Third way” the Web (1.0 / 2.0) being the first and email / messaging being the 2nd and 2nd 1/2 respectively (ok messaging might be the 3rd and Flock “The Fourth way” but I hadn’t thought ahead before typing.) . Anyway I digress …My hope would be that Flock and Firefox would play nice together and I could read feeds and Flickr and any other specific sites using it more as a virtual desktop for certain things whereas most of my browsing would be done on Firefox. If this is the way Flock see's it too then the codebase may not need to digress (especially if FF add the features as you've said Greg) the Mozilla Suite and Firefox lend itself to how this can happen? I’ve added this to the Flock site too
My comment and hope for this is that it will become the “the Third way” the Web (1.0 / 2.0) being the first and email / messaging being the 2nd and 2nd 1/2 respectively (ok messaging might be the 3rd and Flock “The Fourth way” but I hadn’t thought ahead before typing.) . Anyway I digress …My hope would be that Flock and Firefox would play nice together and I could read feeds and Flickr and any other specific sites using it more as a virtual desktop for certain things whereas most of my browsing would be done on Firefox.
If this is the way Flock see’s it too then the codebase may not need to digress (especially if FF add the features as you’ve said Greg) the Mozilla Suite and Firefox lend itself to how this can happen?

]]> By: Greg Yardley http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Greg Yardley Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:58:33 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=134#comment-256 I'm not sure I entirely buy into your argument, Bart, although I believe you've got the best of intentions. Once it becomes acceptable to use the Mozilla code as a base for a for-profit enterprise (Netscape's a bit of a special case, no, being the initial donors of the code?), the best and the brightest are going to go work for for-profit enterprises. Leaving the core code somewhat deprived - a tragedy of the commons situation. In addition, if Flock implements a feature and then Firefox follows suit because the feature's desirable, the code's going to diverge despite the best of intentions. I’m not sure I entirely buy into your argument, Bart, although I believe you’ve got the best of intentions.

Once it becomes acceptable to use the Mozilla code as a base for a for-profit enterprise (Netscape’s a bit of a special case, no, being the initial donors of the code?), the best and the brightest are going to go work for for-profit enterprises. Leaving the core code somewhat deprived – a tragedy of the commons situation.

In addition, if Flock implements a feature and then Firefox follows suit because the feature’s desirable, the code’s going to diverge despite the best of intentions.

]]> By: Matthew Gertner http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Matthew Gertner Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:22:00 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=134#comment-255 Greg, Very interesting stuff. I've posted some commentary on my blog: <a href="http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/15/flock-n-roll/" rel="nofollow">http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/15/flock-n-roll/</a>. Cheers, Matt Greg,

Very interesting stuff. I’ve posted some commentary on my blog: http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/15/flock-n-roll/.

Cheers,
Matt

]]> By: bart http://yardley.ca/2005/09/15/flock-discussion-to-date-uniformly-positive/comment-page-1/#comment-254 bart Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:08:42 +0000 http://yardley.ca/merge/?p=134#comment-254 here's how the Mozilla eco-system is shaping up: - an open source technology project managed by a non-profit organization - above that, non-profit projects (Ephiney et al) and for profit entities, like Mozilla Corporation, AOL/Netscape, and Flock that build and market products based on that We have no interest in forking the Mozilla code base - doing so would mean that we don't get to leverage the efforts of the >100 people who work on the Mozilla code-base full time. here’s how the Mozilla eco-system is shaping up:
- an open source technology project managed by a non-profit organization
- above that, non-profit projects (Ephiney et al) and for profit entities, like Mozilla Corporation, AOL/Netscape, and Flock that build and market products based on that

We have no interest in forking the Mozilla code base – doing so would mean that we don’t get to leverage the efforts of the >100 people who work on the Mozilla code-base full time.

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