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Article: Netscape's code giveaway won't kill Microsoft. (Communicator source code) (Above the Cloud) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
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- Network World
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- March 23, 1998
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Netscape's proposed giveaway of its Communicator source code is a bold move. However, it is unlikely to stall Microsoft's momentum in the browser wars.
Netscape's gambit is a return to the company's roots in the traditional Internet research and development community, in which free source code is exchanged as casually as the morning's sports section. The radical twist is that Netscape is releasing source code for a mainstream commercial software product.
As you would expect, Netscape will keep close tabs on how licensees deploy its source code. It is building a new internal organization, Mozilla (www.mozilla.org), to publish code, supply technical ...