''Code Rush'' is a 2000 documentary following the lives of a group of
Netscape
Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was onc ...
engineers in
Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the
Mozilla open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
project until their acquisition by
AOL
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. It particularly focuses on the last-minute rush to make the Mozilla
source code ready for release by the deadline of March 31, 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin.
After
Andy Baio uploaded the documentary to his personal website for the release of
Mozilla Firefox 3 in 2009, director
David Winton
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requested it be taken down, pending his decision about future distribution under a
free content license. It has since been released under the
Creative Commons
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BY-NC-SA 3.0 US license.
Featured Netscape employees
*
Jim Barksdale, CEO
* Scott Collins
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Tara Hernandez
* Stuart Parmenter, then a 16-year-old open-source volunteer
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Jim Roskind
* Michael Toy, co-author of ''
Rogue
A rogue is a person or entity that flouts accepted norms of behavior.
Rogue or rogues may also refer to:
Companies
* Rogue Ales, a microbrewery in Newport, Oregon
* Rogue Arts, a film production company
* Rogue Entertainment, a software com ...
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Jamie Zawinski
*
Brendan Eich
References
External links
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Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary
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Documentary films about business
Documentary films about the Internet
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