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The Standard: Mozilla Manager Denies Trouble

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 2, 1999

“…[Mitchell Baker,] the director of Mozilla.org, AOL’s open
source browser development project, today denied a report in which
a Sun official said the project may be modified.”

“Baker was responding to a report yesterday [see ‘Related
Stories’ below] that quoted Alan Baratz, president of Sun’s
software products and platforms division, as saying the Mozilla
project was not working as well as expected and that it may be
switched to a Java standards process.

‘That [report] was Alan Baratz’s opinion,’ Baker said. ‘Alan
doesn’t speak for Mozilla or AOL. We do not plan to change our
model.
‘ “

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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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