2009/4/19 Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]>: > From my own (admittedly limited) knowledge of the history of the > Mozilla project, I don't think the above is a correct description. > 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.
No, they started using "mozilla.org" as a domain name, but it wasn't a nonprofit until AOL dumped it in 2003 and supplied $2m for them to form the Mozilla Foundation. > Development then proceeded as > an independent open-source project with both volunteers and Netscape > employees doing it as a side project, first to try to finish > "Netscape 5", then to scrap that and rewrite the rendering engine as > "Gecko" and make it part of a new "Mozilla suite". No, Netscape heavily directed the development. Being a good independent developer was a good way to get hired by Netscape, too. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
