Andreessen & Co. developed Mosaic, but legally Mosaic belonged to the NCSA at the University of Illinois. So when they left Illinois and moved west to Silicon Valley in 1994, they could not take the Mosaic code with them. They built Netscape from the ground up. Obviously it was very similar to Mosaic, though; the browser was even called "Mosaic NetScape" in its early development. Netscape and the NCSA got into a legal scrap over it, and in the settlement Netscape paid the NCSA $3 million and agreed to stop using the name Mosaic.
Microsoft later used the Mosaic code (which Microsoft purchased under license from the NCSA) to create IE 1.0 in 1995.
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Andreessen & Co. developed Mosaic, but legally Mosaic belonged to the NCSA at the University of Illinois. So when they left Illinois and moved west to Silicon Valley in 1994, they could not take the Mosaic code with them. They built Netscape from the ground up. Obviously it was very similar to Mosaic, though; the browser was even called "Mosaic NetScape" in its early development. Netscape and the NCSA got into a legal scrap over it, and in the settlement Netscape paid the NCSA $3 million and agreed to stop using the name Mosaic.
Microsoft later used the Mosaic code (which Microsoft purchased under license from the NCSA) to create IE 1.0 in 1995.
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And you can still download Mosaic from the NCSA site... it's kinda cool to see that old thing load new pages.... (and see how much has changed)...
I think about Mosaic everyday (well almost) when I drive by the NCSA building....
<a href="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/"; target="_blank">http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/</a>;
(Sorry if this is too OT, but I thought some would find it interesting...)
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