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Code Rush (2000)

Code Rush (2000), directed by David Winton, starring Scott Collins and Stuart Parmenter.

04/25/2000 BR Documentary 56m

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A Year in the Life of Silicon Valley Supernova: Netscape

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Life on the edge in Silicon Valley - home of high tech, high anxiety, and high stakes. Take a revealing look at Netscape Communications engineers as they set out boldly and brazenly to save their company. A virtual panorama of human drama and techno-thrills, Code Rush puts you at the center of the high-intensity clash of science, engineering, and commerce.

  • David WintonDirector, Screenplay
  • Stephanie MechuraEditing
  • Jonathan HalperinScreenplay

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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.

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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.

Featured Netscape employees

Jim Barksdale, CEO

Scott Collins

Tara Hernandez

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

Jim Roskind

Michael Toy, co-author of Rogue

Jamie Zawinski

Brendan Eich

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Code Rush at IMDb

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary on YouTube

Code Rush on Vimeo

Code Rush is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Annotated Code Rush at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-08-10)

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

Text from Code Rush on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush

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What is Code Rush about?

Code Rush: Life on the edge in Silicon Valley - home of high tech, high anxiety, and high stakes. Take a revealing look at Netscape Communications engineers as they set out boldly and brazenly to save their company. A virtual panorama of human drama and techno-thrills, Code Rush puts you at the center of the high-intensity clash…

Who directed Code Rush?

Code Rush was directed by David Winton in 2000.

Who stars in Code Rush?

The cast of Code Rush includes Scott Collins, Stuart Parmenter and Jamie Zawinski.

How long is Code Rush?

Code Rush runs for 56 minutes, or 0h56.

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