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Mozilla Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-heart-the-fox dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Mozilla has turned 10 today. It's been a long, strange trip from being the once-dominant browser, going down to almost nothing, and returning to something like 25% of the browser market. '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.'"

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  1. Re:And what a great ride it's been by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What was that 'hidden' page again with the quote from the 'book of mozilla'? Ahh memories :)

    That'd be this guy.

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    This guy's the limit!
  2. Re:Congrats by Amorymeltzer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Still can't drink, drive, vote or fuck tho' Yeah well, that 10 year old's done more to Microsoft than you ever will.
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    I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
  3. Re:Congrats by kemushi88 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it can view porn.

  4. Re:Open Source ... by STrinity · · Score: 2, Funny

    My introduction to free software was in 1986 when my father bought a Commodore 64 and one of his friends came over with an extra disk drive so we could copy all his games.

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    Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
  5. Re:And what a great ride it's been by BeeBeard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for the link. I was drawing an about:blank there, too. ;)

  6. Re:Honest Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...are there any theories as to why people bother with stuff like that on a site like Slashdot?
    Why, yes, there are: John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory