GPL-style availability of NetScape 5.0 sourcecodes announced

[richard at aoi.ultranet.com (Richard Royston)]

John Duksta writes:

> My Interpretation:
> 
> We're losing money, so instead of paying our own programmers to make
> enhancements to Netscape, we'll release the code to the Net and let
> people on the Net write our software for free.

If linux and GNU experience is anything to go by, we the users will probably
end up with much better software than if they keep it to themselves anyway,
and if they do all the support & so on, why shouldn't they make money like
Cygnus does?