X-Nico

unusual facts about Netscape Communications Corporation



Ben Goodger

Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.

Eazel

The enterprise was staffed with former employees of Apple, Netscape, Be Inc., Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, among others.

RSS

RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Most famously, in 1998 it also provided the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start the Mozilla project.

William Barksdale

Jim Barksdale, one of the founders of Netscape, and a native of Mississippi, referred to General Barksdale in speeches, citing his aggressive nature as a model for business success, but there is no documentation to suggest that the two men were related.


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