The { -brand-name-mozilla } project was founded in San Francisco in 1998, when the { -brand-name-netscape } browser made the radical decision to give away its program code to the public to build on and improve. At that time, one company had a virtual monopoly on how people experienced the internet.
{ -brand-name-mozilla } 项目于 1998 年在旧金山启动。那时，有家公司几乎垄断了人们体验互联网的方式，而 { -brand-name-netscape } 浏览器却做出了大胆的决定，将其程序代码公开给大众开发和改进。