Netscape's success attracted the attention of Microsoft, which recognized the Web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution.

" Mammon " refers to Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer browser was Netscape's chief competition.

SlipKnot version 1. 0 was released on November 22, 1994, approximately 3 weeks before Netscape's Netscape Navigator version 1. 0 came out.

AOL / Netscape's rights were acquired by Red Hat, and on June 1, 2005, much of the source code was released as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Netscape's initial corporate policy regarding Navigator is interesting, as it claimed that it would make Navigator freely available for non-commercial use in accordance with the notion that Internet software should be distributed for free.

Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war.

America Online, by this time Netscape's parent company, eventually adopted it for use in CompuServe 7. 0 and AOL for Mac OS X ( these products had previously embedded Internet Explorer ).

Other observers, including many outside of the free software business community, interpreted the move as Netscape's surrender in the face of the ascendancy of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

: HTML 3. 2 dropped math formulas entirely, reconciled overlap among various proprietary extensions and adopted most of Netscape's visual markup tags.

In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend the library, then at version 1. 86, to suit Netscape's requirements for an LDAP server and for use in the Netscape browser.

Netscape's blink element and Microsoft's marquee element were omitted due to a mutual agreement between the two companies.

: Initially code-named " Cougar ", HTML 4. 0 adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes, but at the same time sought to phase out Netscape's visual markup features by marking them as deprecated in favor of style sheets.

Mozilla was originally the codename for the defunct Netscape Navigator software project, along with Netscape's mascot, a cartoon reptile inspired by Godzilla.

Mozilla was featured prominently on Netscape's website in the company's early years.

Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox and Netscape versions 6 through 9.

Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008.

These include Netscape's implementation of SSL ( famously cracked by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner in 1995 ) and a Debian / Ubuntu edition of OpenSSL discovered in 2008 to be flawed.

Sun offered StarOffice 5. 2 as a free download for personal use, and soon went through an exercise similar to Netscape's relicensing of Mozilla, by releasing most of the StarOffice source code under a free / open source license.

UserLand was an early adopter of the RSS syndication method, merging Winer's Scripting News XML format with Netscape's RSS.

This would be Netscape's last participation in RSS development for eight years.

Two entities emerged to fill the void, with neither Netscape's help nor approval: The RSS-DEV Working Group and Dave Winer, whose UserLand Software had published some of the first publishing tools outside of Netscape that could read and write RSS.

Because neither Winer nor the RSS-DEV Working Group had Netscape's involvement, they could not make an official claim on the RSS name or format.

Guha also contributed to the " smart browsing " features of Netscape 4. 5 and was instrumental in Netscape's acquisition of the Open Directory Project.

PCT was designed to address security flaws in version 2. 0 of Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer protocol and to force Netscape to hand control of the then-proprietary SSL protocol to an open standards body.

In version 1. 0 of Netscape, this took the form of a big blue " N " ( Netscape's logo at the time ).

Frank Hacker of Netscape discusses the events leading up to Netscape's executives releasing the source code for Netscape's browser, one of the signal events which made open source a force to be reckoned with by business executives, the mainstream media, and the public at large.

When AOL ( Netscape's parent ) drastically scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization, the Mozilla Foundation was launched on July 15, 2003 to ensure Mozilla could survive without Netscape.

The text probably refers to Netscape's hope that, by opening its source, they could attract a " legion " of developers all across the world, who would help improve the software ( with the " din of a million keyboards ").

He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL ( with David Wagner ), and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint ( formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems ), a Canadian software company.

Early versions of Netscape's Secure Socket Layer ( SSL ) encryption protocol used pseudo-random quantities derived from a PRNG seeded with three variable values: the time of day, the process ID, and the parent process ID.

It also brought the browser much closer to the bar that had been set by Netscape, including the support of Netscape's plugins technology ( NPAPI ), ActiveX, frames, and a reverse-engineered version of JavaScript named JScript.

It was called the Mozilla Public License after Netscape's project name for the new open source codebase, and although it was originally only intended for software that supplemented core modules covered by the NPL, it would become much more popular than the NPL and eventually earn approval from the Open Source Initiative.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Microsoft released Direct3D in 1995, which eventually became the main competitor of OpenGL.

Its main competitor ( Direct3D from Microsoft ) runs only on Microsoft Windows-based machines including the Dreamcast and Xbox consoles.

Specifically, they claimed Microsoft announced its Quick Basic 3 program to slow sales of its competitor Borland's recently released Turbo Basic program.

Although a costly settlement to Microsoft, this eliminated the most damning evidence of Microsoft's anti-trust behaviors, and allowed Microsoft to control and dominate this sector of the marketplace without concerns about any further serious competitor.

Novell was going to try to be a real competitor to Microsoft.

However, the integration of DOS into Windows 95 was the masterstroke: not only were the other operating system vendors frozen out, Microsoft could now require computer manufacturers to comply with its demands on pain of higher prices ( as when it required IBM to stop actively marketing OS / 2 or else pay more than twice as much for Windows 95 as its competitor Compaq ) or by withholding " Designed for Windows 95 " endorsement ( which was regarded as an essential hardware marketing tool ).

Over the next few years Dreamweaver became widely adopted among professional web authors, though many still preferred to hand-code, and Microsoft FrontPage remained a strong competitor among amateur and business users.

In the mid-1990s Microsoft licensed OpenGL for their Windows NT operating system as its primary 3D system ; Microsoft was positioning NT as a workstation-class system, and OpenGL was required in order to be a real competitor in this space.

Microsoft appears to have neglected FoxPro subsequent to the acquisition, perhaps because they also owned and promoted Microsoft Access, a direct competitor to dBASE.

Of these three, Sony remained worldwide market leader with Nintendo and Microsoft roughly equal in second place, each dominating the competitor in its home territory.

* IAccessible2 on Microsoft Windows, a competitor of Microsoft UI Automation also replacing MSAA

It was a competitor to the Microsoft Foundation Class Library ( MFC ).

Again, " Mammon " is Microsoft, Mozilla's main commercial competitor.

Lighthouse's applications were not up to par with Microsoft Office as a whole, but certainly could have been developed into a direct competitor with additional development.

However, SCE Executive Tetsuhiko Yasuda does not consider Microsoft to be a competitor, and has said that they might consider working on games together.

Early on, Cooper worked with Gordon Eubanks to develop, debug, document, and publish his business programming language, CBASIC, an early competitor to Bill Gates ’ and Paul Allen ’ s Microsoft BASIC.

The later papers stand in contrast to the Institution's 2000 paper, The Market Place Should Rule on Technology, which discusses Linux as a direct competitor to Microsoft Windows.

Halfway through the project Bray accepted a consulting engagement with Netscape, provoking vociferous protests from Netscape competitor Microsoft ( who had supported the initial moves to bring SGML to the web.