{"id":149,"date":"2007-07-19T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:52:31","slug":"one-not-so-great-thing-about-free-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"One not so great thing about free software developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>... <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=147\">is that more than one are likely to have the same crazy ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I started to play with <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/docs\/XULRunner\">xulrunner<\/a>, which according to my oldest post in the <a href=\"\/blog\/?cat=11\">xulrunner category<\/a> would be near 2 years ago, I had this crazy idea (and here, when I say crazy, I almost think dumb) that it would be neat to have a window manager based on libxul, being able to display both \"native\" windows and XUL or HTML windows.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it would be neat, as in web-2.0-hype or i-can-use-gmail-directly. But that would be so much impossible to secure, and introduce so many different new ways to compromise users...<\/p>\n<p>Guess what... It now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrodesktop.org\/\">exists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Waw, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pyrodesktop.org\/img\/guadec07-keynote.pdf\">GUADEC keynote slides<\/a> are really full of crap. My favorite ones are about \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/products\/firefox\/\">The Fox<\/a>\" : Good engineering practices and Small, extensible core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is that more than one are likely to have the same crazy ideas. When I started to play with xulrunner, which according to my oldest post in the xulrunner category would be near 2 years ago, I had this crazy idea (and here, when I say crazy, I almost think dumb) that it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-xulrunner","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}