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   Mosaic Communications Corporation (later Netscape Communications) was   
   founded 30 years ago. They were brash enough to thumb their noses at   
   Microsoft. And if you remember that time, Microsoft was indeed slow to   
   appreciate the importance of the then-up-and-coming Internet. Bill   
   Gates famously put out a book called “The Way Ahead”, talking about   
   how he saw the future of computing evolving, and he didn’t even   
   mention the Internet, except in a hastily-added postscript.   
      
   But once the changes in the marketplace became evident, the   
   supercarrier did manage to turn itself around. And Microsoft fought   
   back, by both fair means and foul, to keep Windows not only the   
   dominant desktop platform, but the dominant platform for consuming   
   Internet content.   
      
   One important thing Netscape did before going completely defunct was   
   to open-source the browser. That lives on today (after a fashion) as   
   the SeaMonkey browser, but a trimmed-down adaptation of the code,   
   jettisoning all the non-browser-related functionality, found new life   
   as Firefox.   
      
      
      
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