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JavaScript Inventor Brendan Eich Named New CEO of Mozilla

Posted by samzenpus on from the man-with-the-plan dept.

darthcamaro (735685) writes "Mozilla today announcedthat Brendan Eich would be its new CEO . Eich had been serving as Mozilla's CTO and has been with Mozilla since day one — literally day one. Eich was a Netscape engineer when AOL decided to create the open-source Mozilla project in 1998. The choice of Eich as CEO seems obvious to some, after a string of recent short-tenured CEOs at Mozilla's helm."

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  1. Re:AOL created Mozilla? by madbrain · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The acquisition of Netscape by AOL closed in March 1997. I was there, as the last pre-AOL Netscape hire.

    It was indeed under AOL that the Netscape Navigator was open-sourced under Mozilla.

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    -- Julien Pierre http://www.madbrain.com/blog