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. I just recently read a great story about the birth of Firefox (by Ben Goodger, one of the lead developers), which unfortunately seems to be the only insider perspective in existence: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009698.html Good reading if you are interested in the history of the Mozilla project (it only covers a narrow portion of the topic, but it does so well). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
