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10 Years of Mozilla!

April 4th, 2008

No Monday blues around here today — it’s Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary! On March 31, 1998 Mozilla was officially launched and the Mozilla source code became publicly available for the first time. Mitchell Baker has a write up of what Mozilla and its community have accomplished in these past 10 years and what’s in store for the next 10. Here are a few highlights:

* Converted a closed, proprietary development process into a vibrant, transparent, open source project
* Grown into a massive global community, quite possibly the largest open source project in the world
* Developed a set of long-term, vibrant projects — Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, Bugzilla, Calendar — most, and possibly all of which have millions of users
* Become the software provider of choice for over 170 million people
* Proved that open source development can produce great end user products
* Brought the Internet to millions of people in their language
* Moved the overall state of browser software forward dramatically
* Become a technology platform others use to create products built on Mozilla technologies, and in some cases competitive with Mozilla products

A huge thanks to our wonderful community that has helped make this all possible! Please stay tuned for more details on how we’ll honor the anniversary over the year.

Via blog.mozilla.com