ajw Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Follow this link for the details and new web siteMozilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Nice! And their page design looks nicer, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 Thanks for that, ajw...looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 This isn't a spin off folks. AOL just killed Netscape today. Everyone that was working on the browser will be fired, probably at this moment. But, Mozilla will still survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 IMO, this is probably a good thing for Mozilla... It means they're not tied down by AOL's wants and can truly develop their own product. Sorry to see that it means the end of Netscape (AFAIK), but at least the Mozilla Foundation will live on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prelude76 Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 I agree, GolfRM. Netscape deserved to die. I think many people think of Netscape as the browser that used to be good until MS IE pounded it to oblivion. If we get rid of Netscape name, it actually finally feels like its a new product. And that new website really helps. The old site was an embarrassement to send a link to someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quint Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 Agreed, Ryan...and btw, very nice avatar - really like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 CNet News - AOL lays off Netscape developersThis article has some further information on what is going down.America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape Communications subsidiary amid a reorganization of its Mozilla open-source browser team. The layoffs come as the loose Mozilla.org group, which had overseen the open-source development efforts of the Mozilla browser, transforms itself into a nonprofit foundation. The foundation is funded in large part by a $2 million donation from AOL and $300,000 from Lotus founder Mitch Kapor. Mitchell Baker, who will be president of the new Mozilla Foundation, said the group would use part of its seed funding to hire "a core group of people," which would include project managers and "key technical contributors" to the open-source project. Some of those people are expected to come from Netscape's ranks. A broad group of independent volunteers and staffers at other companies are expected to continue working on the open-source browser effort, however. As part of the agreement with AOL, the foundation will also receive all the trademarks and logos associated with Mozilla. The Mozilla open-source browser project has traveled a bumpy road over the past year. Its long-awaited first full release was followed by a snub from Apple Computer, which passed over Mozilla in favor of another open-source technology for its Safari Web browser. Not long afterward, the project switched direction, working with new code in an effort to shrink the size of the program. Its last major release was distributed to the developer community late in June. In addition to AOL, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems continue to support the Mozilla project, which could help their own push toward the use of open-source software as a replacement for Microsoft products.---It's a shame about Mozilla's project for Apple, Camino as noted below below on the Mozilla - Browser Innovation page.(The name "Chimera" is being retired. Beginning with the 0.7 release the project will be known as the Camino project, and the browser as the Camino browser. The rest of this document will no longer use "Chimera" and will instead refer to the Camino project and browser.)Innovation in browser design is a cause for celebration. One key goal for the Mozilla project has been to create an open source browser that would serve as a base for innovation, and we accomplished this goal with the Mozilla 1.x application suite. The technology now exists for a flowering of innovation. The key infrastructure, including Gecko, is robust, proven and available to anyone. JavaScript and XUL significantly expand the set of developers able to create browsers and other applications. Mozilla.org welcomes exploration in browsers and the search for new and better ways of coping with the massive amounts of data available on the web. Exploration, innovation and the expansion of creative potential are among the great benefits of the open source development model. In addition to the Mozilla-based browsers, Apple has recently launched its own browser for Mac OS X, known as Safari. It may be that the majority of Mac end users will end up using Safari because it comes with the OS, just as many people end up using IE because it comes with the Windows distribution. Some see this as traumatic or as a mark of doom. But the Mozilla project understands that almost everyone in the US market (and a substantial percentage of the international market) receives Internet Explorer when they acquire a computer, and our job is to provide an alternative. We would have preferred to have Apple use Gecko or collaborate with us on the development of the Camino browser, but providing an alternative to an OS-sponsored browser is nothing new to us. The key goal of the Mozilla project is to help keep content on the web open and help keep access to that content from being controlled by a single source. Apple's decision to ship a browser based on an open source rendering engine, with a focus on standards compliance, is a good thing for the big picture goal.There are some further thoughts on the Camino versus Safari at the bottom of the Browser Innovation page.---Congrats Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wranger at Mozilla on becoming the leader of the new Mozilla non-profit foundation.Mozilla Staff List - including write ups about Mitchell Baker and other members of the staffWill have to keep an eye on the list to see who disappears now that there are no AOL/Netscape employees directly involved with the project.Congrats to the Mozilla Project in becoming a non-profit foundation ... this is great news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 This site kinda gives me the creeps as it's a post place for all the ex-NS employees to post. Give some of it a read. Some very interesting stories.http://ex-mozilla.org/date.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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