[dmeeker]

I was an intern at Netscape in 1998 and I'm really glad to have been there to witness a bit of the history. The first staff meeting I attended was announcing layoffs, two weeks later they announced the open source initiative, then two months later the launch of Mozilla.org.

Code Rush touches on all the work that went into making the code buildable by folks outside, but one thing they omitted probably surprises no one: the sheer amount of profanity that had to be scrubbed from the source code before it was released. Some genius assembled a page of the choicest examples (much of it directed at Microsoft) and handed out hundreds of photocopies at the launch party.

Hell of a first job in tech.

[dboreham]

I remember one of those announcement meetings (forget which one now) was held in an odd location : some place upstairs in downtown Sunnyvale, and happened to coincide with some big news release in the Lewinsky scandal which mostly buried our news in the cycle.

[yeukhon]

"profanity" are still in the source code if you search in Mozilla central :-) well, depends on how one defines "profanity".

[nojvek]

would love a read if anyone has a copy