How open sourcing Netscape Communicator in 1998 and the creation of Mozilla, a gamble at the time, paved the way for the now-mainstream embrace of the practice (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Stephen Shankland / CNET:
How open sourcing Netscape Communicator in 1998 and the creation of Mozilla, a gamble at the time, paved the way for the now-mainstream embrace of the practice  —  A gamble 20 years ago unleashed the source code for the browser that became Firefox.  The approach is now core to Facebook, Google and everyone else.

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