Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

Jamie Zawinski remindsus that the 25th anniversary of the Netscape open-source announcement -a crucial moment in free-software history - has just passed.

On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One ofthem would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, hadbeen eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from "clienteng"over to the "website" division. For about 48 hours I thought that Imight end up writing a webmail product or something.

That, uh, didn't happen.

That announcement was the opening topic on thesecond-ever LWN.net Weekly Edition as well.