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Making the World Wide Web Possible
Once upon a time, a company named Netscape created a browser to surf the Internet. The browser was originally named Navigator, and later, Communicator. Millions of people downloaded it from the Internet for free. Netscape put in the hands of millions of people (including us, your authors) the power to access the exploding number of web servers. Netscape made history and changed the world because it changed the Internet from a medium that served scientists into a tool that anyone can use.Even though Netscape Communicator is freely distributed to anyone who wants it, it isn’t open source software in the same way that Linux is. Quite simply, Netscape Communicator is a moneymaking venture, and Netscape considers the way the software works to be proprietary.On the other hand, Netscape recognizes the importance of the open source dynamic, which is why it released an open source version of Netscape, named Mozilla. Now, countless numbers of people are developing and enhancing Mozilla, the default browser for Red Hat Linux computers.The DVD that comes with this book includes Mozilla, the open source brother to Netscape Communicator. Netscape and Mozilla are quite similar, although they have a slightly different look and feel.
