Code Rush

Added to Computer documentaries 1 year ago
(Average user rating: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ...
2,427 views

A 1998 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It was shot during a time of flagging company fortunes, the initial release of the Mozilla code as an open source project, and the friction of an impending AOL-Netscape merger. The documentary depicts Netscape programmers forgoing their normal lives and families in an attempt to save the company from ruin.

Netscape took an enormous risk in deciding to open the Mozilla source code to unpaid contributors worldwide so they could accept tweaks and changes from a huge pool of engineers. A close-knit crew of eccentric but brilliant minds work on the project, picking bugs out of huge amounts of code, and struggling to make it all work by the fateful day when the new browser is to be launched.

Bookmark and Share

Leave a Reply