Code Rush

2000 film
Code Rush
Directed byDavid Winton
Release dates
March 30, 2000 (TV)
April 25, 2000 (VHS)
Running time
56 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Code Rush is a 2000 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL. It particularly focuses on the last-minute rush to make the Mozilla source code ready for release by the deadline of March 31, 1998, and the impact on the engineers' lives and families as they attempt to save the company from ruin.

After Andy Baio uploaded the documentary to his personal website for the release of Mozilla Firefox 3 in 2009, director David Winton requested it be taken down, pending his decision about future distribution under a free content license. It has since been released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US license.[1][2]

Featured Netscape employees

  • Jim Barksdale, CEO
  • Scott Collins
  • Tara Hernandez
  • Stuart Parmenter, then a 16-year-old open-source volunteer
  • Jim Roskind
  • Michael Toy, co-author of Rogue
  • Jamie Zawinski
  • Brendan Eich

References

  1. ^ Baio, Andy (2009-07-31). "Code Rush in the Creative Commons". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. ^ Koten, Jake. "Project Code Rush". Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

External links

  • Code Rush at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary on YouTube
  • Code Rush on Vimeo
  • Code Rush is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
  • Annotated Code Rush at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-08-10)
  • Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary


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