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The Inquirer: Mozilla Foundation to Ban Firefox Derivative Browsers?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 23, 2005

“The Mozilla Foundation used to be all about competition, about
creating and implementing web standards and delivering code that
could be re-used by anyone. In fact, during the 1998-2004 time
frame when Netscape/AOL funded the Mozilla.org project–including
dozens of programmers on Netscape’s payroll, the re-branding and
use of the Gecko engine by third party applications was
encouraged…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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