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Events on Thursday 22 January 1998 1
1998Netscape releases browser source codeMove launches the Mozilla open-source projectNetscape Communications announced on 22 January 1998 that it would release the source code of its Communicator browser suite free of charge, a landmark moment for the open-source software movement. The move gave rise to the Mozilla project, which later produced the Firefox browser.