• Reported by liorean

I've said it before - albeit not here. The web is not the next battlefield of Microsoft's chosing, and is inconsequential as battlefields go in the software market nowadays anyway. No, the next battle will stand on the fields of close network integration, platform unification, ease of construction of small applications and useful utilities - web based and client based both. It's mayor weapons will be Longhorn, .NET, Avalon. Apparently, Brendan Eich have about the same thoughts on this. That is the area in which the open source projects need to cooperate and stand as one - not as many alternatives. Mozilla can't afford to not counter XAML by enhancing SVG, XUL, XBL, JavaScript 2; or try to stand alone while the Linux community around them moves to counter Microsoft. They must be a part of the unified platform that the Linux platform will, sooner or later, create to counter Microsoft.

So, what part should Mozilla take in the future? Where can we take this ship built out of smaller boats and driftwood, so that it will eventually come out if not atop, then at least in one part, after the clash with the Microsoft ironclad, in a not too distant future?

Hat tip Craig Saila, who has a few other links of interest as well...