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Life After Netscape For Mozilla Developers

Posted by timothy on from the life-goes-on dept.

An anonymous reader submits "MozillaZine has an article up on life after Netscape for Mozilla developers formerly employed there. Several developers are now employed by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation in full or part-time positions, others have been hired by IBM and Daniel Glazman was contracted by Lindows to write web publishing application Nvu. Another group of developers have joined together to form Mozilla Consulting to work on customized Mozilla enhancements. The amount of interest by non-Netscape companies in Mozilla is surely a positive sign for the future of the project."

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  1. Re:Promises promises by dpol · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please mod parent down. The poster simply copied Daniel Glazman's comments on mozillaZine's forum. Also, the poster quite clearly states that he has no qualms about posting other peoples' material in his journal.

    Quoting:

    "And so another glorious trolling session begins. My last account became well-known far too quickly, and the slashdot janitors killed all my karma. Kinda hard to troll at -1. So...fresh account!"
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    -- David Polberger Computer Science major, University of Lund, Sweden
  2. Re:Promises promises by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    An identical comment was posted on MozillaZine earlier today by "glazou" - is that you, or are you kharma-whoring?

  3. Here's the link to donate by sphealey · · Score: 4, Informative
    Should have included this link in the prior post:

    To donate to Mozilla Foundation:

    http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html

    sPh

  4. Re:Slow down... by linuxci · · Score: 3, Informative
    Just because IBM hired Daniel Glazman doesn't mean they have any interest in Mozilla


    Daniel Glazman isn't hired by IBM, he actually runs his own company, that's contracted to work on various enhancements to Mozilla Composer, including Nvu, funded by Lindows.com

  5. Re:This is good and bad news by Ice_Balrog · · Score: 4, Informative

    AOL isn't leeching. First of all, they are donating $2 million to the Mozilla Foundation. Second, they donated a while shitload of hardware to the Mozilla Foundation. Third, they don't even make the branded version of Mozilla (Netscape) anymore.

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    #include "sig.h"
  6. As a Microsoft evil developer by tekiegreg · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd have to admit, Mozilla has made some great strides at least as far as its place on my desktop.

    After the demise of netscape in market share, I became a complacent IE user, and my web page development was IE focused, with Netscape being a back-watered to make sure it just looks "reasonable". However...

    When I upgraded to Windows XP, I found IE locking up and having some more general weirdnesses than before. Frustrated I download the latest stable Mozilla (currently I'm still using 1.4). All I could say is Wow...a faster load time than IE ever was, and it's actually easier to code than for IE, with descriptive Javascript errors, and *gasp* debugging for Javascript that works intuitively. Built in popup blocking, etc...

    Nowadays both get equal treatment in my web development, simply being "reasonable" isn't enough in Netscape, my pages must work as intended in Netscape/Mozilla or I will be re-checking my code. What's next?? Might I even ditch WinXP and grab the latest Debian build? Perish the thought...

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    ...in bed
  7. Re:Slow down... by cobar · · Score: 2, Informative

    All the guys that were hired by IBM were, to the best of my knowledge, brought on to continue working on Mozilla. doron was definitely hired to do Mozilla development. Shortly before the dissolution of Netscape, IBM was running an ad looking for an experienced Mozilla developer to help get their enhancements landed.

  8. Re:Article summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's a subtle omission in your third step:

    1. Netscape paid Mozilla developers
    2. AOL/Netscape pulls out of Mozilla program
    3. Mozilla developers get rehired by different companies to continue working on Mozilla