Published 11/19/2008
by Stephen Shankland
at CNET News - Business Tech
Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler."
Gone are the days when Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the sole rival for Mozilla's Firefox. A new open-source browser, Google Chrome , has come to town, and it's from ...
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