Code Rush (2000)
April 25, 2000Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Scott Collins
Self
Stuart Parmenter
Self
Jamie Zawinski
Actor
David Winton
Director
Jonathan Halperin
Writer
Frank duPont
Executive Producer
B.Z. Lewis
Music
Stephanie Mechura Challberg
Editor
Stephanie Mechura
Editor
Chad Grochowski
Sound Mixer
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This Movie Is About.
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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.