Posted on Friday 4 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
I’ve already linked to an interview with Firefox creator Blake Ross over here and as The New York Times made another one, I’ll sure not going to hide it from you. It’s not as in-depth as the old one, but still worth a read. Here’s one of the questions:
DP: All of the people that we’re talking for this story started in their early teens. And all of them made their marks in Internet-related fields. Is the Internet what’s allowing very young people to achieve extraordinary things? Or could smart, ambitious people have made their mark in some other area at that young an age?
BR: Yeah, the Internet is really the great equalizer. It really levels the playing field. There’s absolutely nothing else stopping me from writing a great piece of software and just putting it out there on the Web for anyone to use. And it doesn’t matter if it came from a 50- year-old experienced software developer or it came from a 19-year-old kid in California. If it’s good software, people will use it.
