June 12, 2009 11:17 AM PDT
Firefox extensions: A strategy born of compromise
Firefox has surpassed 22 percent global market share, its popularity driven in large part by the thousands of extensions and add-ons that personalize the Firefox experience for diverse users.
Intriguingly, however, Firefox's extensions strategy didn't start out as a strategy at all. It was a compromise to keep the project's developer base together, as Mozilla's Asa Dotzler explains in this interview I conducted with colleague John Newton earlier this week.
The History of Firefox Extensions - An Interview with Asa Dotzler from Matt Asay on Vimeo.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 
- by chabil-ha June 14, 2009 9:19 AM PDT
- Great vid! Would there be a possibility of you posting the entire unedited interview?
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