Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
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Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
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Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#2Very cool to learn where my Linux file manager GUI app came from.
One point that is light on details in the wiki was what exactly their monetization plan was or if they even had one at all? It sounds like they wanted to integrate business/enterprise features and support, or perhaps features that plug into other internet services that they could possibly monetize. It sounds like the "network user experience" with "Eazel Online Storage" and "Software Catalog" were their initial monetization ideas.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#3I remember the hype when Nautilus first came out. I was a teenager, but even then, I had my doubts as to how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business. IIRC there were conversations about how to monetize it using premium add-ons which seemed pretty ridiculous at the time.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#4looks like Steve picked up the whole team without paying a dime.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#5I remember the hype when Nautilus first came out. I was a teenager, but even then, I had my doubts as to how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business. IIRC there were conversations about how to monetize it using premium add-ons which seemed pretty ridiculous at the time.
A user's "home page" is valuable real estate for good reason. If they could have become the home page for a large number of users then they might have been able to monetize without losing those users, but that's a pretty big if on a convoluted path.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#6I remember the hype when Nautilus first came out. I was a teenager, but even then, I had my doubts as to how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business. IIRC there were conversations about how to monetize it using premium add-ons which seemed pretty ridiculous at the time.
>how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business
Well, there are Total Commander and other commercial file managers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#7Wow. I remember this. I really wanted to work for them. I dreamed of giving the Gimp a giant overhaul.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#8I remember the hype when Nautilus first came out. I was a teenager, but even then, I had my doubts as to how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business. IIRC there were conversations about how to monetize it using premium add-ons which seemed pretty ridiculous at the time.
Yeah, I also remember. It was the frothy time of the dot-com era where anyone with a novel idea could raise a couple millions. I was also scratching my head how you'd make money off Linux desktop users, considering there were very few of them, and they hated commercial software.
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#9> Susan Kare designed new vector graphics-based iconography, having designed the original Macintosh icons
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> On March 13, 2001, Eazel simultaneously launched the first release of Nautilus (version 1.0), and laid off most of its 75 employees in an attempt to secure funding in its final few months.
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> The Nautilus file manager was received positively, and has been incorporated into GNOME since GNOME version 1.4.
Here’s the Nautilus docs from GNOME 1.4, complete with some screenshots of the version of Nautilus that came with GNOME 1.4:
http://www.fifi.org/doc/gnome-users-guide/html/gnome-users-g...
There are multiple pages with more screenshots of Nautilus in those docs. Keep clicking next at the bottom of the page to see more of those Nautilus screenshots from GNOME 1.4
Btw, does anyone know if the version in these screenshots are using any iconography that Susan Kare created?
Re: Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
#10Very cool to learn where my Linux file manager GUI app came from. One point that is light on details in the wiki was what exactly their monetization plan was or if they even had one at all? It sounds like they wanted to integrate business/enterprise features and support, or perhaps features that plug into other internet services that they could possibly monetize. It sounds like the "network user experience" with "Eaz…
This was 1999. Monetization hadn't been invented yet.