Garth Wallace wrote:
> Doesn't "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" cover the decision
> to make Moz open source?
Not really; it just discusses the aftermath of the decision.
IMO the most accurate and complete discussion of Netscape's decision to
release Communicator source code is chapter 11 of Glyn Moody's book
"Rebel Code"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738203335/
This book is in general a good history of free software and open source.
Unfortunately the text is not available online, so check it out at your
nearest bookstore or library.
You can also check out the chapter "Freeing the Source: The Story of
Mozilla" from the book "Open Sources" (which _is_ available online):
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/netrev.html
However this chapter really just covers the period after announcement of
Netscape's decision in January 1998 and prior to code release on March
31, 1998 -- basically the same period covered by the TV documentary
"Code Rush".
Finally, mozilla.org has published a few "progress reports" in the
course of the project; see in particular "Mozilla at One" from April
1999 and "News from the Front" from July 1999:
http://www.mozilla.org/mozilla-at-one.html
http://www.mozilla.org/update.html
as well as the various Mozilla roadmap versions:
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-26-Oct-1998.html
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-25-Sep-2000.html
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html
For a much finer-grained view see the status reports:
http://www.mozilla.org/status/
and past articles on MozillaZine:
http://www.mozillazine.org/archive.html
Frank
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