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Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment according to Netscape’s own accounts. But Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was grabbing share at a furious pace thanks to it being free (at a time Netscape was about$30) and specially the fact that it came bundled with Windows 95 and upcoming Windows 98 (released on June 1998).
With a sliding market share, Netscape decided to focus on its enterprise oriented products and gave away the browser but most importantly allow volunteers to work on the product. Mozilla was nothing but Netscape’s user agent (the name a browser uses to contact the web server), a reminder of the first Netscape code name.
Over time, Mozilla would become the name of the open source project, AOL would buy Netscape and Internet Explorer would get up to 90%+ of market share leading to the worst period in web browsers’ history where innovation was a niche for Opera and IE remixes users.
In 2002, Mozilla would finally release its first public version with its crazy mantra: we are platform builders, we are for developers, we leave products for others.
Entered Phoenix, which took Mozilla, the application suite, and made a consumer product out of it. At about the same time, AOL spun off the Mozilla Foundation with a $2 million check. Phoenix, then Firefox, would become an instant hit in 2004 proving the user oriented approach to be the most effective way for Mozilla to achieve its goals.
It’s been ten years of hard times and good times, frustration and satisfaction. But in all, Mozilla existence and success is something we can all, as connected citizens, celebrate: having options when it comes to web browsing because it leads to standardization and innovation, no matter it comes from Opera, Safari, Mozilla or Microsoft.
Original Netscape press release from January 2008.
Complete Mozilla timeline poster.Reminded by Mitchell Baker.
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[...] Hace 10 años Netscape anunció que lanzarÃa para todo el público, el codigo de su producto más destacado, Netscape Communicator 5, haciéndolo un producto de código abierto. Mozilla no era más que su nombre de agente de usuario (el nombre que un navegador usa para contactarse con un servidor web), un recordatorio del primer nombre en clave de Netscape. A lo largo del tiempo, Mozilla se convertirÃa en el nombre del proyecto de código abierto. [...]
[...] KIT FOR ISPS, OEMS AND INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDERS WORLDWIDE (1998-Mar-11) [Netscape] [4] Ten years of Mozilla (2008-Jan-22) [...]
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[...] Publicado por xender 23 January 2008 en Mozilla. Compártelo Tal día como ayer, hace 10 años Netscape anunciaba que el código de la próxima generación de su navegador sería liberado, para entonces Netscape [...]
[...] dÃa como ayer, hace 10 años Netscape anunciaba que el código de la próxima generación de su navegador serÃa liberado, para entonces Netscape [...]
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[...] (the basis for the netscape, aol and firefox browsers) celebrates its 10th birthday today. iPhone Software Update [...]
[...] Mozilla está de cumpleaños. Todo se remonta a 10 años atrás, cuando Netscape decidió liberar el código de su Netscape Communicator 5… (vÃa Slashdot). ¿qué es esto? Se lee en 0’06 minutos | Ver los enlaces a este post | Imprimir Technorati tags: mozilla,netscape [...]
Happy Birthday Mozilla!
Let’s have 10 more ok?
[...] 10 years since the Netscape Communicator source code was freed. Blog post here. Original Netscape press release [...]
[...] Happy 10th birthday, Mozilla! Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment according to Netscape’s own accounts. [...]
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[...] Ten years of Mozilla — I know that this is relatively minor, but it is worth pointing out that it has been 10 years since the birth of Mozilla from the Netscape Communicator 5 code branch. We have seen a rendering engine birthed by the dominant browser of the day flounder into near obscurity and then rise up as a Phoenix into the mighty Firefox Web browser. A browser that took away enough market share from Internet Explorer that Microsoft resurrected the development team after it had been discontinued. Thanks to a plethora of development tools, Firefox is the browser of choice in the Web development field. [...]
It’s not 331 yet. Mike Pinkerton was my Devel of OSS professor last semester, and he said the open source day was March 31.
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