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MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the how-may-picoseconds-is-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"

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  1. I hope for their sake.. by CooCooCaChoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur" ;-)

    5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft ;-)

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    "The difference between pornography and erotica is the lighting" - Woody Allen

    1. Re:I hope for their sake.. by The+Almighty+Dave · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Maybe we should wish in one hand and shit in the other, then see which one fills up faster.

      Microsoft is a corporation. they are not trying to create "community atmosphere", they are trying to sell a product. If projecting the illusion of "community atmosphere" will help them market that product, then they will try to create that illusion. They care about profits, nothing more, nothing less.

    2. Re:I hope for their sake.. by whereiswaldo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Internet Explorer cannot hold a candle to Mozilla 1.4/1.5.

      I totally agree. But you know, Microsoft could have added Mozilla's features into IE with no significant technical problems. Why they haven't added advanced features into IE, in part, is because of their corporate agenda. This goes especially for ad blocking. Microsoft is the ad agency's friend. Mozilla is the user's friend. Microsoft pretend's to be the user's friend, but the veneer is wearing off.