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Re:Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times a... by danso on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:04AM (#7916444)
They've done this previously with DocumentCloud:

http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20083268/

Which is still active and widely used among news organizations, but is probably better known for the JavaScript libraries that were abstracted from it during development: Underscore and Backbone

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Re:Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times a... by ma2rten on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:29AM (#7916601)
Also CoffeeScript.
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Re:Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times a... by knowtheory on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:42AM (#7916668)
Coffeescript was not funded by the Knight Foundation and was not developed for DocumentCloud.

Jeremy started Coffeescript as a personal project in his off time while building out DocumentCloud/Backbone/Underscore.

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Re:Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times a... by CodeCube on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:45PM (#7917940)
It was still funded by them, albeit indirectly :P Actually a great example of the kinds of halo effects you can get from funding open source development
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