Netscape breaks free. (Netscape Communications Corp. to publish source code for Navigator browser to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer)
Economist (US), The, March, 1998
SAN FRANCISCO
IT IS the computer-industry equivalent of revealing the recipe for Coca-Cola. On March 31st Netscape, the firm whose ubiquitous browser made the Internet accessible to millions, will publish the "source code" of the next version of its software program. The move is a daring-or maybe desperate-gamble in the company's battle to hold off Microsoft's assault on its market.
Many software companies give away their products. Microsoft has done so with its own browser, and in February Netscape announced that it would follow suit. But what Netscape now proposes is something much more radical. Firms rarely publish their source code-the actual lines of programming language that make the program work. Computer users have been able to download and run any...
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