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Sun? Netscape?

• zaarn 9y ago
  Netscape was already failing when they open sourced the browser, IIRC. Sun was bought by Oracle, which is the opposite of open-sourcing the product.
  • bb88 9y ago
    The wikipedia page on Netscape is pretty good reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
• rnd0 9y ago
  It seems like Sun was already failing and tried to go the open source route as a failed Hail Mary. They probably would have met the same fate and probably after about the same amount of time, even if they hadn't gone open source.