Submitted by Andy Hertzfeld is responsible for much of the development for the Macintosh in the early eighties. Since then, he’s worked at several technology start ups, including General Magic and Eazell. Most recently, he signed on with Google. Read an interview with Andy about the future of the personal computer and network here.
Don’t forget Robert X. Cringely’s NerdTV interview. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/
It’s Eazel, not Eazell. 😉
the main goal should be to be great and as useful as possible for the broadest class of users
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Amen to that.
> When you were at Eazel, did you anticipate the success
> of Sun JDS (Java Desktop System) and Novell Linux?
How would he be able to anticipate that? They didn’t even exist at the time! And success compared to what?
Is it just me or does the guy come off very flat? He has no zest in his visionary thoughts or has any visionary thoughts.
It could partly be due to the limp questions asked of him, but even those could have been responded with more passion and vision, neither of which was articulated in this interview.
Hopefully, he is very solid in implementing someone else’s vision and that is why he recently got hired by Google.
Obviously he hasn’t looked at nautilus lately to claim that they decided to copy microsoft, perhaps is was that way once, but not now. I wonder what his opinion would be of gnome 2.12, and nautilus now.