[ Thanks to T
Harris for this link. ]
“Today marks a milestone in the history of the ‘open source’
movement, the extraordinary unpaid community of volunteers all over
the world who work together to produce software which is placed in
the public domain without commercial gain. Today sees the official
launch of Firefox (www.getfirefox.com), a free internet browser
that is daring to take on Internet Explorer, owned by Microsoft,
which until recently had a market share of over 95%. It roundly
beat Netscape (originally known as Mosaic) during the late 1990s in
what became known as the browser war…”