It has been a wild first decade for Mozilla. Despite having had a staff of fewer than 100 for most of its existence, the grassroots organization managed to break Microsoft’s lock on the Web browser market. If not for Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser, Microsoft’s software might have come to dominate the Internet the way it does computers. It’s an achievement that demonstrates how an open standards software project guided by an unusual mix of social and business principles can have a huge impact on the technology industry.
