“Hey, what’s up with Mozilla? Is it dead? Dying? About to be
spirited away from the open source movement so that Sun can “take
control” of it? Or is it simply weathering some bad times and
preparing to reemerge onto the stage as another free/open source
success story? Joe Barr muses on these and other Mozilla-related
questions in this week’s Version Control.”
“Whether or not Mozilla is a failure, or whether or not it is an
accurate bellwether for similar hybrid efforts in the free/open
software revolution (since it is half commercial and half
volunteer) is left for the future to tell us. At this point, all I
can say with certainty is that it remains a controversial
topic.”