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	Mitch Kapor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s.
		Kapor was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended public schools in Freeport, Long Island, where he graduated from high school in 1967.
		Kapor is also member of the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, creator of the online game Second Life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitch_Kapor (491 words)

	Mitch Kapor's Weblog: Chandler 0.1 available immediately
		Posted by: Mitch Kapor at April 24, 2003 05:54 PM This is terribly sad.
		Mitch Kapor, who made his fortune by writing software, now begins to publish software under the GPL -- a license specifically intended and designed to deprive other developers of the same opportunity (or even of the chance to make a decent living).
		Mitch is demonstrating either an incredible lack of ethics or profound ignorance of basic economics.
	blogs.osafoundation.org /mitch/000166.html (1229 words)

	Mitch Kapor
		If you knew Mitch Kapor directly after graduating from college, you would probably never have guessed that he would grow up to be one of the most successful innovators in the computer software industry.
		Mitch Kapor was born in 1951 to Jesse and Phoebe Kapor of Long Island, heir to their cardboard box business, Corrugated Paper Products Inc. of Brooklyn.
		Kapor began to tutor the man in computers for 5$ an hour and in very little time he was billing himself as an independent computer consultant.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/kapor_schneider_mitch.htm (1949 words)

	Mitch Kapor & John Barlow Interview
		Kapor was unimpressed by the "gift," whose arrival on a floppy disk seemed unlikely to amount to anything more political or otherwise significant than an attempt to infect his computer with a virus.
		Kapor: It's important to understand that before I was a digital capitalist I used to teach meditation, and then I was a counselor in the psych unit of a local community hospital, which was a formative experience.
		Kapor: I ultimately decided that it was my belief that the company was going to become what it was going to become, shaped by market and technology forces that I really couldn't control, and that I could make myself miserable and be unsuccessful at the same time.
	www.eff.org /Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/barlow_and_kapor_in_wired_interview.html (10550 words)

	Software knight Kapor takes up new quest - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Tech News and Reviews - New Technology - ...
		Mitch Kapor with members of his Open Source Applications Foundation, which he began with his own funds in 2002.
		Kapor (pronounced kay-pore), 54, who founded Cambridge's Lotus Development Corp. in 1982 and grew it into what for a time was the world's largest software company, is back in the business after a 15-year hiatus.
		Kapor's most celebrated incarnation was at Lotus, where he was one of the early knights of the computer revolution.
	www.boston.com /business/personaltech/articles/2005/06/27/software_knight_kapor_takes_up_new_quest (1579 words)

	CSCW: Mitch Kapor
		Mitch Kapor has given the keynote for CSCW 2004 in Chicago.
		Kapor assumes the audience is quite familiar with OS, which should be about correct.
		Kapor's first interaction with Stallman was rather negative: Stallman picketed Lotus in the 80's, with the argument that look and feel of software should not be protected by copyright.
	blog.jackvinson.com /archives/2004/11/08/cscw_mitch_kapor.html (865 words)

	Mitchell Kapor
		Kapor’s life has expanded and contracted on its path of discovery, which began in the fertile era of the 1960’s.
		Kapor earned his Bachelors Degree in 1971 and was a typical college graduate lacking any significant plans.
		Kapor and his backers hoped to create a common software platform for all computers, a task that proved to ambitious for the new company.
	www.stfrancis.edu /ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/mkapor.htm (1053 words)

	CNN.com - Tech legend takes on Microsoft - Nov. 14, 2002
		Mitch Kapor, the software pioneer who introduced such trailblazing products as Lotus' Notes, Agenda and 1-2-3 spreadsheet, is back for another battle with mighty Microsoft Corp.
		Kapor, 52, and the coders meet at least weekly, fine-tuning software that would enable easy organizing for individuals and groups of e-mail, appointment calendars, schedules and contact lists.
		Kapor describes his nonprofit approach as "social venture investing" where there is a "double bottom line" that measures financial success and social change simultaneously.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/TECH/biztech/11/12/outlookchallenger.ap (903 words)

	Here's how Linux gets to the desktop - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a keynote at OSCON yesterday, Mitch Kapor of the Open Software Applications Foundation (OSAF), offered his predictions for the future of desktop Linux and introduced a market study that assesses the current market for an alternative desktop to Windows.
		Kapor said that the immediate challenge for desktop Linux is to prove itself among transactional workers--such as those working in call centers and help desks.
		Kapor said he would not be surprised to see 10 percent of global desktops running Linux in the near future.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914241,00.html (936 words)

	Alpha Of Kapor's Open-Source PIM Due In Spring
		Kapor, who spoke to about seventy Stanford University students as part of the university's computer systems colloquium, said the project's goal was to do for application software what Linux had done for operating systems: begin life as essentially a group project, then later challenge proprietary systems and win.
		Kapor, the co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and principal author of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, first disclosed his PIM plans last October, as part of an ongoing blog on the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) web site.
		Kapor has yet to abandon the idea upon which his earlier Lotus Agenda was founded: that email, contacts, web pages, and other bits of data are just "items" tucked away in folders and spreadsheets on a user's hard drive.
	www.extremetech.com /article2/0,3973,852757,00.asp (1283 words)

	Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor
		Mitchell Kapor was one of the first people in the microcomputer industry to identify his work as designing software.
		Kapor delivered his manifesto in 1990 at Esther Dyson's PC forum, a renowned gathering of microcomputer industry leaders.
		The points that Kapor made are still as valid today as they were a few years ago, and the themes that he introduced echo throughout this book.
	hci.stanford.edu /bds/1-kapor.html (2539 words)

	The Mitchell Kapor Foundation: 2001-2002 President's Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mitch Kapor, some readers know, is an influential figure in the history of two of the most important technological innovations of our time: the development of the personal computer and the Internet.
		Mitch knew I was the president and founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Marin County.
		Mitch Kapor’s commitment to the MKF Environmental Health Program has allowed MKF to play a very key strategic role in the development of environmental health philanthropy nationally.
	www.mkf.org /report/2001-2002/president.html (1630 words)

	Mitch Kapor-Computer Pionneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mitch and his partner then developed the software and Visi-Plot became a huge success.
		After a year Kapor and his partner were bought out for 12 million dollars.
		Kapor went back into business in 1987 when he created On Technologies Corp. He became for three years its President and CEO.
	www.rit.edu /~cpw3605/imm/project1/technologyachievements.html (404 words)

	Software pioneer exits Groove board \| CNET News.com
		Kapor resigned from the board to focus 100 percent of his time on nonprofit activities," according to a company statement.
		Kapor, who co-founded Lotus Development in 1982 and designed the landmark Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, has been increasingly involved in the open-source movement.
		In October, Kapor said he was exploring ways to create an open-source personal information manager that could help cut administrative costs for small- and medium-size companies and for schools.
	news.com.com /2100-1012-991986.html (784 words)

	Open Source Applications Foundation - FAQ
		In the spring of 2001, Mitch initiated a limited experiment by hiring a consulting group to prototype a couple of the key ideas.
		The results were both exciting and encouraging, and so, in the summer of 2001, he took the plunge, committed to open source, and hired the first employee of a fledgling non-profit, the Open Source Applications Foundation, with the mission to create and gain wide adoption of open source application software of uncompromising quality.
		Kapor was intended to provide sufficient funding to take the development of Chandler through the end of 2005.
	www.osafoundation.org /OSAF_Corporate_FAQ.htm (1808 words)

	Mitch Kapor: Data Superhighway Guru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before striking it rich, Kapor had spent time as a disc jockey, a stand-up comic, a transcendental meditation instructor and a counselor at a mental hospital (where, he liked to tell journalists, he had performed "the psychic equivalent of emptying bedpans").
		Kapor actually supports subsidies that will get libraries and schools linked to Internet, and to the fully fiber network of tomorrow--including subsidies in a second Boucher bill that he finds more meritorious than the first.
		Kapor frowns on an idea that some states are considering--building whole fiber-optic networks specially for schools and libraries before the market has lowered the cost (especially of the "boxes" that will connect user to fiber).
	simr02.si.ehu.es /DOCS/nearnet.gnn.com/mag/10_93/articles/kapor/nkapor.whole.html (5078 words)

	Mitch Kapor speaks up for startups - Dec. 27, 1998
		SAN FRANCISCO (The Red Herring) - Mitch Kapor is best known as the founder of Lotus Development, but he has gradually traded in his position as an entrepreneur searching for the next big technology idea for the long-term advisory role of angel investor.
		He says that the tremendous success of Lotus (now a division of IBM (IBM)) and of his investments in UUNet Technologies and RealNetworks (RNWK) were the result of his focus on technology trends that were likely to have lasting impact.
		Kapor convinced the former Morgan Stanley analyst and then-novice venture capitalist Ben Rosen (who had cofounded Sevin Rosen Funds the previous year) to put $1 million into the startup.
	money.cnn.com /1998/12/27/redherring/redherring_kapor (963 words)

	Mitch Kapor: Good luck fighting Microsoft \| Tech News on ZDNet
		My raising of the white flag came as I learned about Mitch Kapor's ambitious plan for a open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager." If this ever becomes ready for prime time, I plan to offer my heartiest congratulations, as there can't ever be enough software diversity.
		Kapor, whose post-Lotus career included stints as angel investor, venture capitalist and social philosopher, never came close to repeating the startling success he enjoyed with Lotus.
		Kapor also believes small and medium-sized organizations are chafing at having to pay big bucks for Exchange so they can take full advantage of Outlook's information-sharing features.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-963325.html (839 words)

	Haas Social Venture Competition
		Mitch Kapor has been a leading figure in the computer industry for 20 years.
		Mitch is also the co-founder and emeritus director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization concerned with the development of progressive public policy for the Internet.
		Mitch has an undergraduate degree from Yale in linguistics and psychology and is an alumnus (but not graduate) of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
	groups.haas.berkeley.edu /socialventure/about/kapor.html (254 words)

	DocBug: Mitch Kapor on Groove
		Mitch was founder of Lotus and more recently the Open Source Foundation and was also the first outside investor...
		Mitch Kapor has two posts about Microsoft's purchase of Groove Networks.
		Mitch was founder of Lotus and more recently the Open Source Foundation and was also the first outside investor in Groove, so he has several good insights into the software and how / whether Groove would be as Open Source if it were done today.
	docbug.com /blog/archives/000299.html (355 words)

	Tim O'Reilly and Mitch Kapor on Open Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tim O'Reilly and Mitch Kapor on what we're missing about Open Source, at PC Forum 2003.
		Mitch: Computers are just as frustrating today as they were 25 years ago, even for geeks.
		Mitch: One company tried to put a clause in their shrinkwrap license that would enjoin you from writing a negative review of their software.
	craphound.com /kapororeilly.htm (648 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- A Chat with Mitch Kapor
		Mitch Kapor has been working on a project that's code-named, Chandler (after the great detective novelist Raymond Chandler).
		Mitch founded the Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and was on the design team for Lotus 1-2-3.
		Mitch kindly agreed to a short interview as a teaser for his talk.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/newsletters/20030617.html (983 words)

	ONLamp.com -- Inside Mitch Kapor's World
		Editor's Note: Steve Holden interviews Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and new open source advocate, after the recent PyCon about his life and career, the OSAF, Chandler, open source, and Python.
		Kapor reveals his vision for Chandler, a personal information manager focused on how people want to interact with their data, rather than on how computers like to store data.
		MK: OSAF came about as a provisional solution to a number of considerations revolving around, "What do I do next?" This is in 2001, so I had moved to California and spent some time at the tail-end of the boom — really the dot-com bust — being a venture capitalist.
	www.onlamp.com /pub/a/python/2004/06/03/mitch_kapor_interview.html (1071 words)

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		Mitch Kapor’s creative jobs leading up to het development of his company lotus proved to be a major influence on his ability to be a leader.
		Kapor left school bound for silicon valley, and his legend as a software creator was about to come to form.
		Mitch Kapor founded his company the Lotus Development company and designed Lotus 1-2-3, which made the personal computer omnipresent in the business world in the 1980’s.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~aa316451/project1.doc (1360 words)

	Mitch Kapor's crazy idea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What Mitch Kapor is working on developing now is an Open Source project to build what he calls "Interpersonal Information Manager" software.
		The application, or more properly, an interoperating suite of several applications "...is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers..." according to Gillmor.
		Apparently Mitch Kapor and his colleagues in this endeavor are not in it for the money.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=5860 (351 words)

	ONLamp.com -- Nine Questions for Mitch Kapor
		Mitch Kapor heads the Open Source Applications Foundation, the group behind Chandler.
		Mitch kindly agreed to a short interview as a teaser for his talk at this July's OSCON 2003.
		Mitch Kapor will present Open Source on the Mainstream Desktop.
	www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2003/06/16/kapor.html (1050 words)

	Long Bets [ 1: By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. ]
		The apparent difficulty of responding appropriately to emotion and other qualia appears to be at least a significant part of Mitchell Kapor's hesitation to accept the idea of a Turing-capable machine.
		A Human is a biological human person as that term is understood in the year 2001 whose intelligence has not been enhanced through the use of machine (i.e., nonbiological) intelligence, whether used externally (e.g., the use of an external computer) or internally (e.g., neural implants).
		A second member will be Mitchell Kapor or his designee, or, if not available, a person appointed by the Long Now Foundation.
	www.longbets.org /1 (5252 words)

	Bloglines \| Citations
		I totally agree with Mitch Kapor’s when he says: “Open source heralds a global paradigm shift in social and economic value creation
		Mitch Kapor posted about this question: "Does the open source model apply beyond software?"
		Mitch Kapor: Open source heralds a global paradigm shift in social and economic value creation of enormous proportions, the extent of which
	www.bloglines.com /citations?siteid=3296&itemid=98 (569 words)

	» Mitch Kapor: What's up with Chandler \| Between the Lines \| ZDNet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kapor seemed keen on explaining why Chandler, which has been in the works for about three years, has taken so long to develop.
		Kapor illustrated some of the problems in developing calendaring functionality, citing time zones as highly nuanced and difficult to get right.
		For example, some people want calendars to change to reflect the local time, to view events based on the location's time zone, or have a floating time zone in which events, such as going for a run, are anchored at a specific time no matter the location.
	blogs.zdnet.com /BTL?p=2238 (584 words)

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