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Netscape may be. Mozilla is the child of some influential hacking community that spun off, back in the early 2000s that then found a lifeline in Google ad money
by freshsqueeze 6y ago
Netscape may be. Mozilla is the child of some influential hacking community that spun off, back in the early 2000s that then found a lifeline in Google ad money. Since that phase passed, they've still siphoning off those laurels for the next two decades.
- codezero 6y agoI worked for Red Hat in 1999 and am pretty aware of the landscape of the early Internet and software, but always up for some corrections - my billionaires comment was a bit tongue in cheek, I'm not sure the early Mozillans are actually billionaires.