Code Rush is a 1998 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

 engineers in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

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. It was shot during a time of flagging company fortunes, the initial release of the Mozilla

Mozilla

Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....

 code as an open source

Open source

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 project, and the friction of an impending AOL

AOL

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-Netscape merger. The documentary depicts Netscape programmers forgoing their normal lives and families in an attempt to save the company from ruin.

After Andy Baio uploaded the documentary to his personal website for the release of Mozilla Firefox 3

Mozilla Firefox 3

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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

Creative Commons

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 NC-SA license

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External links

• Annotated Code Rush on viddler
• Download Code Rush on clickmovement
• Code Rush unused footage
• Interview with director