Mozilla Manifesto manifested.
by T. Colin Dodd
Mitchell Baker is floating a draft (Version 0.9) of a Mozilla Manifesto on her blog, and the Mozilla Foundation is backing it up with some cash for the Democracy (soon to be called Miro) Video player, a creation of a shadowy outfit called the Participatory Culture Foundation.
According to seth’s blog, the PCF Miro video player is “is a cool desktop application that’s sort of a mashup of a video player, an RSS reader, an FTP & torrent client, and a channel guide — the experience is that video is regularly delivered to your desktop. They also make a server and have built a ton of great docs to help you get started as a video publisher on the web.”
The Mozilla grant to PCF follows a similar grant to Creative Commons.
Although there are ten principles listed in the manifesto, and 60+ pages worth of comments to be found in the Mozilla Governance Google usenet group, the thrust of the Mozilla mission is “to provide choice and innovation on the Internet.”
So far, the success of Firefox and Thunderbird have shown what comes of following through on high ideals, providing open source advocates with a prime example of the power of common sense, open standards and collaboration.
With any luck, the Democracy/Miro video platform could be a significant step in further realizing the vision expressed in Mozilla’s manifesto.
