(If they did not, Microsoft said it would not bundle AOL with Windows 95 & 98. It was not finished and most of the employees had been laid off, while the new owners, AOL, actually used and bundled IE as the browser with their client software. (Mosaic was the original GUI web browser.) So it went back to its old codename: Mozilla, the Godzilla of Mosaics. Only the unfinished future Netscape 5.x version.ĪOL owned the name "Netscape" so the new FOSS project couldn't be called that. Note, the current version (Netscape 4.x) was not made FOSS and never was. AOL bought the client software and the dying Netscape Corp made future versions open source. Netscape was driving to bankruptcy by Microsoft, which gave away IE for free in order to, quote, "knife Netscape in the back" (S Ballmer). Then it gained calendaring when Netscape Corp bought Collabora. Then it gained email - see Zawinski's Law: Mozilla was always the codename for the product while it was in development.
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