Matthew Thomas wrote:
> 
> And then, in 1998, a crazy man called Eric (not the same Eric as the
> other one) convinced the Netscape people to make Mozilla open source.
> Very cool. Very froody.

Sort of. The idea of opening the source came from within Netscape ("In the
fight between the bear
and alligator, the outcome is determined by the terrain" --Barksdale). ESR
was recruited to convince the reluctant.

-Dan Veditz

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