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The Mozilla Foundation launches

[Posted July 15, 2003 by corbet]

A press release has gone out announcing the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, which will "promote the development, distribution and adoption of the award-winning Mozilla standards-based web applications and core technologies." The Foundation is starting off with a $2 million donation from AOL and $300,000 from Mitch Kapor, who will be the Foundation's chair. This move seems, at a first look, to be a good and necessary development for the Mozilla project. It does also, however, seem to represent the beginning of AOL's exit from the Mozilla development business.

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Posted Jul 15, 2003 20:48 UTC (Tue) by trutkin (guest, #3919) [Link]

That's exactly what I thought. This looks like the first step for AOL to step away from
Mozilla.

The Mozilla Foundation launches

Posted Jul 15, 2003 20:59 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Yes, I've been waiting for this (or a similar) shoe to drop ever since AOL decided to keep smoking the IE crack recently. :-( Well, perhaps we can see some interesting stuff in Firebird/Thunderbird coming up.

The Mozilla Foundation launches

Posted Jul 15, 2003 23:28 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

This looks like the first step for AOL to step away from Mozilla.

Maybe, but they left with $2M on the table, so I'll try not to complain too much...