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by adastra22 719 days ago
Firefox is open sourced Netscape Navigator 5.0.
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asadotzler 718 days ago
No, it's not. We tossed that code 6 months after the open sourcing and started fresh to build the Communicator clone which we then tossed aside for the entirely new Firefox. Firefox is not Navigator 5. That's plain inaccurate.
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adastra22 718 days ago
In the context of this question, I think it's perfectly accurate. Firefox did not start as a grassroots developed open-source project, like Linux did.
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