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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Based on a browser funded with public money, and made the founders multimillionaires. One went on to cofound the biggest venture firm in the world and hired a man as a partner because he choked my unarmed neighbor to death. The people who *didn't* become millionaires are still making a free browser.

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org

On October 13, 1994, The Mosaic Communications Corporation launched, under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9, the first one in a series of browsers, called Netscape Navigator.

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ivory
@ioletsgo.gay

that's not even beginning to mention that 90% of web browsers rely on khtml, an open source web engine originally made by the KDE open source group.

chx1975.bsky.social
@chx1975.bsky.social

Not to mention the one who went on to cofound is a self professed fascist: he named one of the two authors of the very Fascist Manifesto his patron saint. I can't even.

doomsey
@doomsey.bsky.social

I know a number of the people who _didn’t_ sell out. They’re good people. And, actually, I made a similar choice. More than once. I’m doing OK. I’m not a billionaire.