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World of Mozilla The Mozilla Foundation is a project of hundreds of volunteer programmers dedicated to writing free browsers and email programs. Their projects include the Firefox browser, perhaps the most secure and useful browser ever created . You can read all about Mozilla at http://www.mozilla. Mozilla is one of the leading pioneers of the computer revolution, Mitch Kapor (see http://en.wikipedia inventor of Firefox, Blake Ross, began programming it when he was only fifteen, and now at age twenty he's leading another project (that might change your life!), Parakey (see http://www.blakeros Just in case you aren't already using Firefox, you can download it for free from Mozilla.org. It comes in at least 36 languages (maybe more by the time you read this) and has versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The reason the Mozilla Foundation can offer such excellent software for free is that it has been written by unpaid volunteers. Furthermore, anyone is free to download the source code (programming commands) for any Mozilla software. One reason people volunteer to write code and check existing code for bugs and security flaws is that this can become a passport to a high paying job as a programmer – it's a way to prove that you are among the elite. Anyone can become a Mozilla volunteer, no matter where you live, just so long as you know how to program (see our C programming tutorials at http://happyhacker. http://happyhacker. improvement to their programs that the other volunteers agree is worthwhile. Even if the other volunteers absolutely hate your modification (for example, you could make a version of Firefox that plays an audio clip praising Microsoft) and the Mozilla Foundation refuses to use it in the next release of their browser, you can use your own version and give away copies of your version to other people. |
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