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There's a good Netscape documentary filmed during their last year leading up to the acquisition. When they were working to get the Mozilla source code released.
by Reedx 8y ago
There's a good Netscape documentary filmed during their last year leading up to the acquisition. When they were working to get the Mozilla source code released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
- pmoriarty 8y agoMy favorite quote from that documentary, about people who work in tech: "This is a monk-like existence. There are very few women in these societies. These are male societies. They are secret societies. They function very much like the Masons or some street gang."
- vxNsr 8y agoat 53:30 one of the engineers says "We're at the beginning of an industry and who knows where that industry's gonna go? This could all turn into television again. It could be controlled by a small number of companies who decide what we see and hear. And there's a lot of precedent for that." Sounds pretty prescient considering current events.
- DINKDINK 8y ago>one of the engineers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski There's lots of old-school people in that documentary. Brewster Kahle
- vxNsr 8y agoI figured all these guys/girl are probably a big deal now but I don't know anything about SV culture or history.
- hef19898 8y agoI somehow have the suspicion that the guy is proud of his insight and disappointed to be right at the same time.