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Mozilla and its central Firefox project are themes that I have returned to often on this blog. That's not so surprising: Mozilla is ...

Mozilla is now something of a venerable institution in the open source world - the first release of browser code by Netscape took place ...

I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape's browser. It was instantly obvious that t...

Open source lies at the heart of Google – it runs a modified form of Linux on its vast server farms, and uses many other free software pr...

A couple of weeks ago I posted the first part of an interview with Brendan Eich, who is Mozilla's CTO. That covered the early years ...

It seems so long ago now, but for those of us lucky enough (and old enough) to have been there, the launch of Netscape's 0.9 version o...

HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...

I remember well the moment when the beta version of Netscape Navigator 0.9 was released in October 1994. It was so clearly superior to the m...

Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/...

Apparently, there's an interesting thread over on a site called Quora about the future of Firefox. I say apparently, since I can't s...

We tend to think of free software as (mostly) new, so the fact that Apache celebrated its 15th birthday yesterday seems pretty extraordinary...

Seven years ago, Mozilla 1.0 was launched: Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides servi...

I've often written about particular instances where Microsoft has bullied competitors; it's a pretty sorry tale. But that story bec...

Although Tim Berners-Lee made his “Information Management” proposal back in March 1989, the key moment for what became the World Wide Web wa...

One of the most interesting developments in the open source world is the way that Mozilla has changed in recent years. What started out as a...

I wonder whether in retrospect Linden Lab's decision to open up the code of Second Life will turn out to be as momentous as when Netscap...

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It's déjà vu all over again : Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the European Union, accusing it of stiflin...