AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
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Mitch Kapor

No. 23 Mitch Kapor, founding chair, Mozilla Foundation

Last year's position: Not placed

Mitch Kapor is the sort of tech industry veteran for whom it's hard to single out a career-defining achievement.

Founder of Lotus Development in 1982 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1999, he was instrumental in the creation of the landmark business application Lotus 1-2-3. More recently he's turned his attention towards open source, as president and chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation and founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation.

It's for this last role that he makes the Agenda Setters list, as Mozilla's Firefox threatens to unseat Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the browser of choice.

Described by one panellist as "brilliant", Firefox is seen as the key in loosening Microsoft's grip on the desktop.

Mozilla's email client and development tools also offer open source options to Redmond's products, making it possible (along with Linux and OpenOffice) to run a business system sans Microsoft software.

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Agenda Setters Past

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"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

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Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom DigiTimes.com

Ballmer: Microsoft 'not above learning from others' eWeek


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