ZDNet: Is visibility the key open source value?

Dana Blankenhorn writes on the next podcast release in the LF’s Open Voices series with Mitchell Baker.

“Finally we have the latest Linux Foundation interview, with Mitchell Baker of Mozilla. Jim Zemlin asked her about turning points, and the key, she responded, was the release of code in Mozilla 1.0: “It wasn’t the product that set the world on fire, but it was extremely important to us.” One reason it was important was that it followed a long period of negotiation on the issue of code access, as the code base was transferred from Netscape, a proprietary company under AOL, into the Mozilla Foundation. The result of those negotiations was Mozilla 1.0, which made the software visible to the whole world. The rest, as they say, is history.”