“A year ago Thursday, Netscape released the source code of its
Communicator Web browser. The newborn “Mozilla” project was widely
seen as its last-ditch effort to take down Microsoft by enlisting a
potential army of thousands of volunteer programmers.”
“But there’s still no sign of a working consumer version of
Mozilla. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the company fired 850 people.
Wired News spoke with Mitchell Baker, Netscape’s “chief lizard
wrangler” and point person for the company’s various Mozilla
projects. For comparison’s sake, we asked the same questions of
Netscape Communicator product manager Eric Mann.”