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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 31 2018, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the happy-birthday-to-you dept.

As of March 31st, Mozilla has turned two decades old.

Netscape Communications made two important announcements on January 23rd, 1998:

  • First, that the Netscape Communicator product would be available free of charge;
  • Second, that the source code for Communicator would also be free.

On March 31st, the first developer release of the source code to Communicator was made available.

Sources:
mozilla.org is 20 years old
Mozilla marks 20th anniversary with commitment to better human experiences online


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:06AM (#661036)

    he was well over the.... $200 dollar limit on providing donations without having to disclose them, he CHOSE to make his position publicly known.

    I see your point but so what?

    As a result of that choice he put his position as head of a decidedly 'liberal' organization in question when he chose to do so.

    There was nothing liberal about what went on there.

    retain a position as the head of an organization whose social stance is opposite

    There were plenty of gays opposed to gay marriage and zero evidence presented for any professional misconduct or workplace discrimination on the part of Brendan Eich.

    Personally, given that he's the reason we have JavaScript, I would say that is reason enough he shouldn't be the head of Mozilla

    What exactly is the difference in saying that someone should not be head of a company for developing a dynamic, prototyped based scripting language and arriving at the same conclusion based on sexual proclivity or religious belief?

    Rust sucks donkey dick though eh?

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