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How does Netscape benefit from giving away its source code under such a free license?

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How does Netscape benefit from giving away its source code under such a free license?

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Netscape (and the world) benefits from giving away its source code in a number of different ways. First and foremost is from the expected explosion of creative input to the Communicator source code base. Netscape is confident that this will allow Communicator to retain its position as the preeminent communications software. Second, freeing the source code allows it to go places and into products that Netscape may never have had the resources or time to take it on its own, extending internet accessibility to hardware platforms and software products far and wide.