From Time.com: “A nonprofit group loosely affiliated with Netscape is about to release a new browser called Mozilla. It’s fast, it’s flexible, and it has the backing of AOL (which owns Netscape, not to mention Time) and its 35 million users. Life is about to get complicated.
What makes Mozilla so special is the highly unorthodox process that produced it. As they worked, Mozilla’s engineers released rough drafts onto the Internet, so hackers everywhere could try them out, suggest ideas, fix bugs and generally stress-test the bejeezus out of Mozilla. This is a technique called “open source”; big corporations rarely use it because it involves giving other people free access to the innards–or source code–of your software.”
What makes Mozilla so special is the highly unorthodox process that produced it. As they worked, Mozilla’s engineers released rough drafts onto the Internet, so hackers everywhere could try them out, suggest ideas, fix bugs and generally stress-test the bejeezus out of Mozilla. This is a technique called “open source”; big corporations rarely use it because it involves giving other people free access to the innards–or source code–of your software.”
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- Open Source
