On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Daniel R. Tobias <d...@tobias.name> wrote: > >> Netscape (presumably the "for-profit company" you're talking about >> here) spun off the Mozilla Foundation as a nonprofit entity way back >> when they first open-sourced what was originally the partly-completed >> Netscape 5 version of their browser. > > > Netscape formed the "Mozilla Organization", which was an unincorporated > entity (if you want to call it an entity at all, it was more an open source > project than an entity) much like Nupedia/Wikipedia when it was before the > WMF was formed. The Mozilla Foundation was incorporated much later, after > Firefox was already started. > By the way, Blake Ross was an intern at AOL/Netscape, and David Hyatt was an employee at AOL/Netscape, when Firefox was born. They didn't work for the Mozilla Foundation, which didn't yet exist, and they didn't work for the Mozilla Organization, which probably didn't even have a bank account. Moreover, I bet they had a boss, and I bet they worked under the direction of that boss. Should we call that boss the "sole founder" of Firefox? _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
