The Rise and Rise of Mozilla

“One of the most interesting developments in recent years has
been the rise of Mozilla. Not Mozilla the browser, aka Firefox,
which has become a serious challenger to Internet Explorer: that’s
old hat. Less well known is the way that Mozilla the organisation
has turned from a rather desperate and leaky lifeboat for the
open-sourced Netscape Navigator code into a mighty battleship
blasting hither and thither against outposts of proprietary
software.

“Here’s a good example of what’s going on. As I wrote recently,
Adobe has joined the SQLite Consortium, which was set up by Symbian
and Mozilla. Mozilla’s Chief Lizard Wrangler (no, really), Mitchell
Baker provides some fascinating background to that move…”

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