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by hollerith 486 days ago
Do I read your (2) correctly that Firefox (I realize it was not named that originally) began inside Netscape (when it was a division of AOL)?

Was it open-source licensed at the same time the flagship Netscape/Mozilla browser was?
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BrendanEich 486 days ago
Yes, of course -- Hyatt and Blake both worked for Netscape. What misled you into thinking Firefox started as some outside-Netscape project?

All the code was MPL'ed.

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hollerith 485 days ago
>What misled you into thinking Firefox started as some outside-Netscape project?

Something I read many years ago, maybe a comment here on this site. I appreciate the correction.

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