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posted by marcov, 15.12.2008, 15:42

> > This is total nonsense. Netscape has funded Mozilla for years (and
> afaik
> > still), and Mozilla is based on the original Netscape V5 code.
> >
> > So there is no "poaching" involved.
>
> I don't think Netscape is a company anymore. It's owned by AOL, right?
Correct. But afaik it is still an organization unit.

> And the old code (e.g. Jamie Zawinski) is long gone, I think they ended up
> rewriting pretty much everything.

Correct, but that was done by a large part by Netscape sponsored developers too.

> Last I heard, even the "Netscape"
> version of the browser was recently discontinued (i.e. no future
> versions), but I may be wrong.
Correct also.

> EDIT: Google funded a lot of Firefox. I think the main developer is/was a
> worker of theirs.

That's new to me. Maybe in recent years. But it was a Netscape run show by far, and afaik that was still the case not so long ago, with Netscape PR folk helping out with the 2.0 release.

However the point is that Mozilla pretty much originated in Netscape, and Netscape set the license (the MPL, the corporate LGPL). GPL was never an option.

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