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mozilla.org is 20 Years Old

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

canopic jug writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:58PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:58PM (#661131)

    Nice try at alt history there, but the reason he was fired... *ahem* sorry, I meant "strongly encouraged to step down", was because of an artificial public outrage that forced Mozilla's hand. Maybe he would have been fired either way, but we don't have any good evidence to suggest so.

    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, and I said as much before he became president or ceo or whatever.

    Give the guy a break, it was a different time back when JS was first implemented, nobody could have foreseen the monster it will become.

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