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.

Code Rush
Directed byDavid Winton
Release dates
  • March 30, 2000 (2000-03-30) (TV)
  • April 25, 2000 (2000-04-25) (VHS)
Running time
56 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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.[1][2]

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References

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  1. ^ Baio, Andy (2009-07-31). "Code Rush in the Creative Commons". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. ^ Koten, Jake. "Project Code Rush". Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
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