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No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people to create a browser from the Netscape sources. Mozilla says so itself "The Mozilla project was created i
by KingOfCoders 4y ago
No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people to create a browser from the Netscape sources.
Mozilla says so itself
"The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. "
- dragonwriter 4y ago> > Mozilla, like most nonprofits, has always been run by activists > No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people “Developers and tech people” can also be activists, so that's not a contradiction, but... > Mozilla says so itself Except it doesn't in the material you quote, it says (emphasis added): > It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.
- KingOfCoders 4y ago> It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people. It explicitly says (emphasis added) "levels of innovation in the browser market."
- dragonwriter 4y agoYes, that's the goal they wanted to harness the power of “thousands of programmers on the internet” for. The quote doesn't say anything about who the founders were beyond their activist goals.
- KingOfCoders 4y agoI need to check that one, it will take some time and I might be wrong. I'm out of my water in the details of who made what decision to setup Mozilla.