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Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success

Posted by kdawson on from the include-and-reveal dept.

Titus Germanicus writes "If you're thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla might be the perfect blueprint to follow. At last week's Mesh 2008 conference in Canada, Mike Shaver, chief technology evangelist and founding member at Mozilla, and John Resig, a JavaScript evangelist at Mozilla — two of the key figures behind the success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser — listed inclusivity and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project. Shaver said in this interview that because the Web is intended for everybody, the level same openness should be shared with Firefox's open source contributors."

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  1. Re:Of course, it's so simple! by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    only if you ignore all the BSD code in Windows.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. Re:Of course, it's so simple! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    IIRC, there is almost no BSD-licensed code (maybe none) in modern versions of Windows. You say that like people use modern* versions of Windows.

    *(and I use "modern" to mean "released recently" here)
  3. Re:Of course, it's so simple! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Firefox was already the most widely used open source consumer product in the world before the Google revenue existed.
    Yes indeed, all 10 users...
  4. Re:The prefect blueprint? by ISoldat53 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should see someone about that cough.