Firefox swings to the rescue
Dec 14th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Mitchell Baker, trapeze artist and leader of an open-source web browser,
is on a mission to keep the internet free
YOU may recall that about a decade ago a company called Netscape
launched the internet era with a new killer application called a web
browser; that Netscape was subsequently expunged by Microsoft, the
world's largest software company; and that Microsoft's copycat browser,
called Internet Explorer, has held, in effect, a monopoly ever since.
Until recently, this “history” of the web was broadly correct. Yet
something very odd is going on that may yet require history to be
rewritten. And that has a lot to do with Mitchell Baker, formerly of
Netscape but nowadays the “chief lizard wrangler” (sic) of a non-profit
foundation called Mozilla, whose main product is a web browser called
Firefox.
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5300269
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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