Why Open Source is not Magic Pixie Dust, Part 284
Sep 30, 2009, 20:02 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Glyn Mody)
"Of course, it was not a decision taken lightly, but the company
had been forced to take dramatic steps in the face of its
catastrophic loss of browser market share thanks to the steadily
improving versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer – and its
own missteps.
"The move was widely reported, and led to the ideas behind free
software being introduced to many people for the first time. But
the initial hopes of that announcement were not realised. Turning
Netscape's Communicator program – the name used for the
expanded version of Netscape Navigator, including extra
functionality like email – into Mozilla, as the new code was
baptised, proved much harder than expected."
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