Who develop DMOZ's engine, the application

[peterpan]

Wondering who develop the search engine and the directory engine? the CGI and etc?

[kctipton]

Past, present and future staff programmers.

[feverinlove]

nice answer I must say

[windharp]

You might want to have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODP#Software as a start. Currently the ODP is owned by Netscape/AOL and they supply the directory with staff programmers who work on the code.