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I wonder how did they take Mosaic from NCSA to found the business (later to be renamed to Netscape)? Did they really reimplement the browser, or maybe they had
by zerr 9y ago
I wonder how did they take Mosaic from NCSA to found the business (later to be renamed to Netscape)? Did they really reimplement the browser, or maybe they had rights?
- systemtest 9y agoIf you want to know all the intrinsic little details on Mosaic, NCSA and Netscape I would recommend the book Weaving the Web. It is written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee back in 1999 and is very close on the action.
- justin66 9y agoA number of companies licensed the rights to that code (it's in their credits as "Spyglass, Inc."). I just assumed that Netscape had a relationship with NCSA, but the browser that kept the "Spyglass, Inc." credit longest was actually IE, as far as I know.
- endlessvoid94 9y agoThey reimplemented it. Jim Clark mandated it IIRC
- dsimms 9y agoMCOM (later Netscape) and NCSA were definitely not on friendly terms. There was a lawsuit against MCOM at which point they changed their name.