Example: I’m not sure if younger folks would even be aware that Firefox did not start out as an official Mozilla project. It was an act of protest by Mozilla developers who got tired of shoveling useless crap into their browser just because AOL was paying them to, or because Mozilla management was stuck on the old Netscape idea that the product had to be a big monolithic “suite” with an email reader, an HTML authoring product, an IRC client, and other stuff even fewer people wanted.
Firefox was the basic Mozilla browser with all the crap stripped out. And it was instantly, obviously better than both AOL’s Mozilla-based “Netscape” and the Mozilla Suite.
Mozilla eventually adopted Firefox as an official project, but only after the earliest versions got all the excited users and press acclaim that Mozilla’s official products had so conspicuously failed to attract.
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