A History of Openness and the World Wide Web: The Forces Driving America Online and Mozilla Firefox
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The Internet began as a restricted military project and has become one of the most accessible information mediums in human history. Three aspects of openness have shown influence over this development: open access, open content, and open source. Driven by consumer preference, technological soundness, and political pressure, a continuous growth in openness can be traced through the early development of the Internet, to the launch of proprietary networks such as America Online, and their subsequent adoption of open World Wide Web standards. This thread is connected to the most recent development in openness through America Online’s participation in the founding of the Mozilla Foundation. The rapid adoption of the open source software product, Mozilla Firefox, as the second most popular browser application for the World Wide Web is evidence of the continuing trend toward openness online. Open concepts drive not only the development of Firefox, but also its usability and marketing. The Firefox story is still developing, and the extent of its success may be a measure of the future potential for openness and the World Wide Web, where several challenges to openness are threatening to reverse the trend and entrench enclosure of information as the standard for the future.
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