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Netscape, aka Netscape Communications Corporation, was a company that pioneered the commercial graphical Web browser, following other browser's graphical pioneering. It has since been bought out by AOL after it was crushed by Microsoft in the first browser wars. After it was realized that they would lose the browser wars against Internet Explorer, Netscape open sourced their Communicator program suite, creating the Mozilla project. The community discovered that the code base was virtually unusable from the effects of too many hastily added features and hacked bugfixes, so the codebase was scrapped, and work started over. The work finally paid off, years later, and the present day Netscape browser is based on Mozilla instead of the other way around. The Netscape browser has always worked on Linux and other Unix sytems though the current emphasis of the Mozilla Foundation (with the newer Firefox browser) is arguably targeted at Windows.
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