Mozilla rising

“Netscape won’t dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows … But the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser. Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a “platform” — that is, using Mozilla’s underlying code to build non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs and even Linux desktops. You don’t need to download Mozilla to use these apps, as some are distributed with their own stripped-down version of Mozilla’s engine — which, if you think about it, is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape.”