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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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