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Mozilla Corporation

August 3, 2005 · by Haavard


According to the New York Times, the Mozilla Foundation is planning to create a for-profit subsidiary to promote further growth of its products.

Much like Opera Software has done as a company for ten years, the new Mozilla Corporation says that it wishes to promote an open Internet. Now, more than ever, actions will speak louder than words.

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  • nicomen

    Netscape II - It's pissed and it's after you!
  • Jakub81

    Yeah, the whole Mozilla IS Netscape 2. Look at the Mozilla's board of directors names. And we must remeber these guys "invented" <blink> and <font> tags. More evil than M$.
  • Think

    what will all the developers think?
  • Kelson

    So the years of standards evangelism from Mozilla-the-organization don't count?
  • Sigup

    Mozilla:

    *Words: "Standards compliance!"
    *Action: *Implements non-standard Gecko extensions for web devs to use*

    *Words: "Hooray, we are nice people and all!"
    *Action: *Underhanded dirt slinging, FUD and lies against competitors*

    But there's good news! Maybe this will finally force the Asa troll to shut up...
  • haavard

    That's not exactly what I was talking about. More like they need to keep their focus and not let "easy solutions" ruin everything. As a commercial entity they will hopefully continue to promote open standards and avoid mistakes that a lot of companies make.

    Hopefully they, like Opera, will contribute even more to the W3C and similar organizations. Opera has several employees that are paid by us to work at the W3C (and WHATWG for that matter). As a commercial entity, they might be able to put real money behind open standards like Opera does. Although they surely contribute already of course.
  • Kelson

    Non-standard extensions are bad. Got it. Better get rid of Opera's -o-link, -o-source, and similar properties, then.

    What? They're intended for internal use by the application only? Why, gosh, so are -moz-border-radius and the like!

    Speaking of FUD...
  • Kelson

    OK, that makes sense.
  • Sigup

    I'm not talking about stuff that's clearly marked as "internal use only". More like stuff like XMLHttpRequest.
  • porneL

    Which is useful and Opera implements it?

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Published inA Journal from Behind the Trenches
DateAugust 3, 2005
AuthorHaavard
OriginalInternet Archive