“It’s been a long four years for Mitchell Baker.
“As the leader of the Mozilla.org project, an AOL-funded
open-source Web browser technology, Baker has been trying to stoke
the fire she helped light in 1998. Mozilla, which was created using
Netscape’s browser code, found support among a legion of software
developers intent on blocking the juggernaut advance of Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer.“However, the revolutionary fervor of 1998 has been tempered by
the realities of the marketplace, and IE’s share of the market long
ago surpassed Netscape, now based on Mozilla technology…”
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