Tristan Nitot’s post reminded me that I also was interviewed by Source21 during FOSDEM 2006. I’m not 100% happy about this (I hate when people say this “iiiiii” between words, and that’s what I did here – shame on me 🙁 ), I was very tired, after many hours of work, but I hope that you’ll find it interesting enough to watch 🙂
Gandalf’s interview from FOSDEM 2006.
Update: The interview took place 3 months ago. Since then we improved our product management thanks to amazing work made by Mark and Bart and Geoffrey, and if you want to see what’ll be in the Cardinal – look at the Product Specification.
7 replies on “Interview from FOSDEM”
nie bylo az tak zle.
btw. zawsze myslalem, ze przed zrobieniem wywiadu sie daje pytania pytanemu:P
I wish you luck with Flock, but I doubt it will succeed. I think implementing the web services into the browser interface is a dead end. What if an user uses a blog that is not compatible with flock? My.opera.com for example? 😉 What if the services (their interfaces) will change, what if the services are shut down etc. You will have to keep Flock compatible with the web sites… it’s insane IMO. Will different language versions use different websites?
BTW, I dunno about IE or Firefox, but definitely Opera is not very similar to Netscrape 2.0 😛
Jakub81: You forget about the power of extensions.
And yes, Opera is still basing it’s UI on the exact same paradigms as Netscape 2.0. Back, Forward, Stop, Reload, enter URL, bookmarks, history – that’s all the same. And no, it’s not the only possible approach 😉
Great interview Gandalf, though it seemed you were a bit in a hurry;)
Thx for the Flock wiki page link — an interesting read. A shift in browsers paradigm is certainly welcomed. It will be interesting to see if this view is shared by users too:)
Three questions:
– Is the public beta of Cardinal still due to be out this month?
– Will localized versions of Flock contain support for local services or are these to be supported through extensions only?
– You said Flock is and will remain open source, but Flock FAQ states some future version may contain some proprietary parts. Does this still hold true?
Numen:
– Yes. And in fact Cardinal *is* the name of our public beta (0.7). So it’s not a beta of Cardinal, but Cardinal – public beta of Flock 😉
– Yes. I’m not sure if we’ll make it for Cardinal, but it will be before 1.0. And I’ll try to make Opera Blog support for Polish version
– I’m not the CEO, nor project manager, but basing on my knowledge, we will stay open source. We may work on some custom software (according to Stallman’s definiton) extensions/components, but if we’d want to change the model, we’ll have to change the brand too 😉
Also, bear in mind, that Flock devs are in vast majority Open Source by mind and heart. We work on Gimp, Gnome, KDE, Firefox extensions. It wouldn’t be that easy 😉
Great news, but why will it appear only in Polish version? It’s not a local service.
Anyway, I’m going to take Cardinal for a test-drive once it’s out!
Waiting for something new 🙂
Flock too. Am I right?
In Opera I haven’t now history buttons – as I wish. Will such interface changes will be possible in Flock?
And I also like your answer for date of realise 😉 Better to do something realy good than to give people new Firefox 2.0 without famous Places…