LXer: The Tide Has Turned in the Battle of the War

[ Thanks to Dave
Whitinger for this link. ]

“On November 5th, 1999 I wrote an essay to the community titled
The Battle That Could Lose Us The War. In that essay I described my
mounting frustration over the losing battle we were fighting in the
area of web browsers. My conclusion was that if Microsoft was able
to dominate the web on the desktop, it would be a short matter of
time before they could extend and dominate the web on the server. I
knew that Mozilla was our last and only hope for winning this.

“In the years since then, despite enormous and sundry pressures
against them, the Mozilla project has moved forward at a remarkable
pace. They somehow rebounded from each major setback even stronger.
Milestones were passed, 1.0 came and went, and the layout engine
Gecko started to pick up speed and became used in a variety of
applications, including Galeon and Netscape 6 and 7. When AOL
finally turned the developers loose, they responded by apparantly
doubling their efforts and moving even faster and smarter. Whether
you like Mozilla or not, their persistence is an inspiration to the
entire Free Software community…”

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