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netscape is a course known for it's netscape navigator product

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first commercial rows on the web so first of all first generation really use to get on the web

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and successful for a while and then competition became quite stiff from microsoft the different way to compete would be by building a shared asset

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such as netscape versus microsoft that netscape would gather contributions over volunteer and other commercial produ-- commercial partners and build a product that will be shared

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and that good for people knew that to be open source you had to be real

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he couldn't just say "oh we're open source love us"

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you really had to manage it different way engine

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so at the time there was six or seven or eight of us who are employed by netscape

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who is now sold out our staff and another 100 or 150 employed by netscape as

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netscape engineers build a netscape product and contributing their work

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to the mozilla open source project so we are all in the same building

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they all went to many in the same meetings but we had a slightly different calls

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because although we call it the netscape product

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netscape had been purchased by AOL already

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and so the client itself was diminishing and importance and the important

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netscape client to push traffic to the AOL