Mozilla Organization

The Mozilla Organization was an informal group formed and funded by Netscape Communications Corporation to co-ordinate the development of the open source Mozilla web browser. Founded on February 23, 1998, the organization was part of Netscape but in theory operated independently.

When Netscape's now-parent AOL disbanded Netscape on July 15, 2003, a formally-registered non-for-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation, was founded to ensure that the Mozilla project could continue without Netscape's support. The Foundation effectively replaced mozilla.org (though as mozilla.org was always an informal group, there was no official closure of it). Today, the terms Mozilla Organization and mozilla.org can be taken as synonyms for the Mozilla Foundation.

See also

• Mozilla Foundation

External links

• Mozilla Organization