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		EGreg on Nov 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code Netscape open-sourcing their code is what led to Firefox and an open Web, as a counterweight to closed source browsers. Safari took WebKit from Konqueror I wish more projects would do this

johannes1234321 on Nov 20, 2022 [–]

Mind that they continued working on it and built Netscape versions on top of Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. This people with knowledge of the code base and domain pushed it along.

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