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.
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mozilla.org is 20 years old
Mozilla marks 20th anniversary with commitment to better human experiences online
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:06AM
I see your point but so what?
There was nothing liberal about what went on there.
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.
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?