Mozilla: 7-Years Old and as Idealistic as Ever

March 31, 1999, Jamie Zawinski penned the obituary for Mozilla, developer of the Firefox Web browser. It was actually Zawinski’s resignation letter from mozilla.org and Netscape (then America Online), but in parting he admitted that Mozilla “had finally lost the so called ‘browser war.'”

If only he had kept the faith, as Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker has, Zawinski might be penning a different post for Mozilla, what with its 22.51-percent global market share which rises, almost like clockwork, five percent each year…