Mitch Kapor on Foxmarks
von Percy Cabello
Hinter Foxmarks lies one of the most famous personalities in the open source world, namely Mitch Kapor , the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation , co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and founder and chairman of the Open Source Applications Foundation.
He describes the history of Foxmarks in his own words:
"I've used Safari, and wanted to switch to Firefox and Safari with Mac, I had the opportunity to my bookmarks from home, the office computer and my laptop.. synchronize but for Firefox, there were no comparable solution. Ich wollte nicht einen eigenen Server einrichten, damit ich den Bookmark Synchronizer nutzen konnte. Der Bookmark Synchronizer kann auch nicht mit sich widersprechenden Einträgen umgehen, was für mich eine echte Einschränkung bedeutete. So war Foxmarks also erst einmal eine Lösung für mein ganz persönliches Problem."
Todd Agulnick , ein langjähriger Kollege von Kapor, arbeitet mit ihm bei diesem Projekt zusammen und entwickelt Foxmarks mit. Er kümmert sich auch um den Dienst, der das Ganze möglich macht. "Die Grundlage des Hosting-Dienstes ist Cosmo , ein Open Source-Dienst, mit dem sich Daten gemeinsam nutzen lassen. Er wurde von der Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) \u200b\u200bdevelops, the actual operation is independent of the OSAF. He is also independent of the Mozilla Foundation. For so Kapor
current state of development and future roles, he says: "The beta testing was very productive. The software is very sophisticated. We plan to move next month into a larger building and to bring more powerful hardware is used so that we can be of the larger user base needs. When the beta period officially ends, I do not know yet. "
" We make quite a few thoughts about where the journey should go to Foxmarks, as regards the extension of functionality. There are some areas being considered, where lead could, like to say about support in the mobile network, but at this stage, it would be premature to know what will happen. "
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