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Netscape committed to spinning off mozilla prior to the AOL deal. Also, mozilla is an example of how releasing a closed source codebase often doesn't work, beca
by Joeri 14y ago
Netscape committed to spinning off mozilla prior to the AOL deal. Also, mozilla is an example of how releasing a closed source codebase often doesn't work, because the mozilla project ended up throwing away the old code and rewriting the engine and user interface.
A better example is blender, whose source was bought out and open sourced through a community effort.
- ldng 14y agoThe Mozilla Foundation choose the rewrite path, it's true. Yet, the Sea Monkey project [1] is still alive. It's not like the code base vanished in thin air. [1] http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
- Joeri 14y agoIIRC seamonkey is a rewrite of the netscape communicator codebase. The seamonkey code was what firefox grew out of (firefox itself was not a rewrite, just a refactoring).