Mozilla
Firefox
Firefox is second most popular web browser
developed based on open source principles and available for free. What started
as an experimental project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross has grown beyond our
imagination. This was possible because the firefox browser was available for
everyone to download and use. The source code is available for download and can
be modified. There is not restriction for sharing firefox.
We can be involved in the firefox community
in many areas of interest. Visit the following link to choose your area of
interest for you to contribute. Remember the more you and I contribute the
better the product gets.
The fact that the source code is available
for anyone to review does not make the software free of bugs. If any user with
the required knowledge scrutinizes the source code and feeds corrections back
to the community, it will help.
Freely available source code is absolutely necessary for fostering
innovation. When source code is freely available it brings numerous challenges.
How communities will address these challenges? How to stop business to co-opt
the code for their own profitability? In the latter chapters we will learn how
these challenges are mitigated. We will also learn how companies generate
revenue when they give away software or free.
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