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Code Rush

Code Rush cover
Format	Video (VHS/Digital)
Genre	Documentary
Origin	California, USA
Language	English
Release Date	25 April 2000
Running Time	56:08 min
Production
Created by	David Winton
Directed by	David Winton
Produced by	NA
Written by	Jonathan Halperin, David Winton
Screenplay by	NA
Distributed by	PBS Home Video
Narrated by	NA
Starring	Scott Collins, Stuart Parmenter
Music by	NA
Cinematography by	NA
Edited by	NA
Production Company	PBS Home Video, Winton Dupont Films
Location(s)	California, USA
Original Channel	PBS
Additional Information
Based on	NA
Topics	Technology, Computers, Programming, Internet
Follows	NA
Precedes	NA
Associated Video	NA
Website	NA

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

Downloads

External Links

• Annotated Code Rush on viddler
• Code Rush @ IMDB
• Code Rush unused footage
• Interview with director