Mozillazine: Evaluating Commercial Open Source Projects

“The Forbes article Open Sourcery details
the failure of the commercial Open Source efforts of Mozilla, but
the article’s assessment relies on a dubious set of criteria with
which to judge Mozilla’s progress. Because of the author’s clear
lack of knowledge of the Mozilla project, his article comes across
as mere invective. Below I refute some of the article’s
characterizations of Mozilla’s Open Source efforts, and try to
bring into perspective what benefits can reasonably be expected
from a commercial Open Source release…”

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