Jamie Zawinski
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Jamie Zawinski is an American programmer and early Netscape and Mozilla developer known for his influential role in the early web browser wars and open-source software movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jamie Zawinski canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
computer programmer
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free software advocate ⓘ human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1990s software industry
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open-source community ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | jwz ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| businessInterest | DNA Lounge ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Emacs family of editors
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surface form:
Emacs
Mozilla codebase ⓘ Netscape Navigator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed | XScreenSaver ⓘ |
| employer |
Mozilla
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surface form:
Mozilla project
Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Lisp programming
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open-source software ⓘ software development ⓘ web browsers ⓘ |
| hasBlog | https://www.jwz.org/blog/ ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.jwz.org/ ⓘ |
| influenced |
open-source browser development
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web development culture ⓘ |
| knownForQuote | “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” ⓘ |
| name | Jamie Zawinski self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of open-source software
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contributions to the Mozilla open-source project ⓘ early Netscape browser development ⓘ maintaining XScreenSaver ⓘ public commentary on software development practices ⓘ role in early web browser wars ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lisp-based Emacs extensions
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Mozilla ⓘ Netscape Navigator ⓘ XScreenSaver ⓘ |
| occupation |
blogger
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programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
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Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ
surface form:
Emacs Lisp
Lisp programming language ⓘ
surface form:
Lisp
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| role | early Mozilla project leader ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
digital rights
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open-source politics ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
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