''Code Rush'' is a 2000 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in

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. It covers Netscape's last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the

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open source project until their acquisition by AOL. It particularly focuses on the last-minute rush to make the Mozilla

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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

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uploaded the documentary to his personal website for the release of

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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.

Featured Netscape employees

* Jim Barksdale, CEO * Scott Collins *

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* Stuart Parmenter, then a 16-year-old open-source volunteer *

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* Michael Toy, co-author of '' Rogue'' *

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References

External links

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Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary
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