And with his departure, engineer Jamie Zawinski is raising questions about the future of Mozilla, which was intended to bring new life to Netscape's embattled browser, Navigator.
Software is hard.
The issues aren't that simple. Microsoft effectively ended Netscape's browser revenues by making Internet Explorer a free product. But according to Zawinski, the Mozilla project was a non-starter. The Navigator source code was first released March 31, 1998. Netscape, for its part, insists that the Mozilla process is on track toward releasing Navigator 5.0 in the first half of this year.