eWeek: Mozilla Charts an Independent Course

“Mozilla, the open source Web browser project recently freed
from its corporate creator, wants to become more than a techie’s
tool. It wants to become part of a regular user’s online
surfing.

“Now known as the Mozilla Foundation after splitting from
America Online Inc.’s Netscape Communications subsidiary in July,
the project is turning its focus to the end user after five years
as strictly a development organization. Starting this month, end
users and enterprises can expect to see the first signs of that
shift. Mozilla is preparing greater user support, a set of new
releases and greater enterprise outreach.

“‘Because there was no organizational locus before, companies
and commercial enterprises that were interested in the technology
went to Netscape,’ said Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
president. ‘That’s us now. We have both the freedom and the tools
for people to actually come to us and talk about the
technology…'”

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