The Netscape Story: From Mosaic to Mozilla

Glyn Moody Gives Us the end of a story that encompassed just about every major trend in the rise of the Internet as a mass medium, and that was crucially important for free software.

What this makes plain is that a software company must create a program that serves its users’ needs, not its own – a lesson that Netscape started forgetting almost as soon as it had learned it back in 1994.