Daniel Veditz wrote:
> 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.
And not recruited in the flesh (prior to public announcement) -- we just
referenced ESR's paper as a piece of supporting documentation.
Incidentally, in case anyone is interested in this (relatively) ancient
history, the recently published book "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the
Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody has one of the most detailed and
accurate discussions I've seen of how and why Netscape came to make the
decision to release Communicator source code. (See chapter 11, "Free the
Lizard".)
Frank
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