ONLamp: Firefox and the Impact Curve

“There is little doubt that one of the most publicised Open
Source projects doing the rounds at the moment is Mozilla Firefox.
From the roots of the Netscape browser, the Mozilla project has
spent some considerable time and effort in redeveloping,
modularising and improving the components from the Netscape
Communicator suite. Ever since the sources were made available, the
project has made a number of successful wins that have spawned
among others, Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird.

“With the eventual release of Firefox; the little browser that
could, the public perception of Firefox has not been typical of an
Open Source project…”

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