Economist: Firefox Swings to the Rescue

“You may recall that about a decade ago a company called
Netscape launched the internet era with a new killer application
called a web browser; that Netscape was subsequently expunged by
Microsoft, the world’s largest software company; and that
Microsoft’s copycat browser, called Internet Explorer, has held, in
effect, a monopoly ever since. Until recently, this ‘history’ of
the web was broadly correct. Yet something very odd is going on
that may yet require history to be rewritten. And that has a lot to
do with Mitchell Baker, formerly of Netscape but nowadays the
‘chief lizard wrangler’ (sic) of a non-profit foundation called
Mozilla, whose main product is a web browser called Firefox…”

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