After having spent the past week enjoying the various builds toward Mozilla Firefox 0.9, I had a thought. There are many people who believe, to some degree, that the future of the web is RSS. Microsoft doesn’t have an RSS reader. In fact, there are no major names in the RSS ring. A little odd, if it is the future of the web, right?

There’s currently so many options when it comes to RSS. It’s great to have so many competing products, but it sure makes it frustrating when there is no single stand-out reader. I have a few favorites, but there isn’t a single RSS aggregator that I’ve used consistently because the features I like are spread around a variety of good programs, mostly developed by one or two people.

I have a very successful and creative friend and mentor who says regularly that ignorance is an asset. If you don’t know enough about something, you don’t know the million reasons why it can’t be done. If necessity is the mother of invention, ignorance is the father.

So, speaking completely in ignorance, I have a question.

Why doesn’t the Mozilla Foundation take a bold step into uncharted territory and develop the world’s best RSS Reader? Why not beat Microsoft to desktops everywhere?

Just an idea.

Update: I’m retarded. Mozilla Thunderbird’s roadmap has RSS integration listed as a new feature for the next release, 0.8. Please excuse me for not actually looking first at the one place it would be most intelligent to integrate news readers.

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