Mozilla's Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 30, 2008 3:34 PM EDT
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Asa Dotzler has been there from the beginning. As Mozilla's director of community development, he's had a hand in birthing some of the web's most successful open-source software projects, most notably the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers. Asa (pronounced A-suh) first got involved with Mozilla in 1998, when he was still an architecture student at Auburn University. He was interested in free software, but like many, he found the Linux distributions of the day too abstract. But when he heard Netscape had released its browser code under a free software license on March 31, 1998, he felt the urge to get involved. He knew web browsers -- and the problems with them -- so he eagerly offered his services.

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