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		brisance on Nov 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates? >>Setting the precedent that web browsers should be free (even for commercial use)? That's revising history. There were plenty of free browsers back then. Netscape itself was derived from NCSA Mosaic which was free.

drumdance on Nov 5, 2011 [–]

Actually, Netscape was not derived per se. It was a complete re-write by people from the Mosaic team who had left to start Netscape.

Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass, who held the rights by virtue of a deal with the University of Illinois.

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