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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by l0b0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:44PM (#38268533)
Netscape Navigator, which became Mozilla, which became Firefox.
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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by hnbad on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:59PM (#38269666)
That's not entirely honest. Mozilla basically was an unfinished rewrite, not the original Netscape Navigator, and it was spun out into a foundation during the acquisition. Netscape didn't simply go bankrupt throw its source code into the void for someone to pick it up.
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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by hobobaggins on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:40PM (#38271887)
> That's not entirely honest.

Better to say not correct, rather than implying dishonesty.

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