Mozilla's Team Shares Firefox Secrets

If you’re thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla Corp. might be the perfect blueprint to follow. Members of the Firefox team gathered at the third annual Mesh conference to discuss how they manage an extremely high-profile open source project. Why a "liberal licence" works best.

At this week’s Mesh 2008 conference in Toronto, several key figures behind the success of Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser listed inclusively and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project.

 

Mike Shaver, chief technology evangelist and founding member at Mozilla, said that because the Web is intended for everybody, the level same openness should be shared with Firefox’s open source contributors.