Gregory's Server@allenstenhaus @linuxfiend Oh yes. Mozilla was originally launched by Netscape as a kind of Hail Mary pass to save the company (or at least its code) after the disastrous decision to completely rewrite the code base from the ground up for Netscape 5 wrecked the business. While they were busy rewriting, Microsoft ate their lunch. The Hail Mary was open-sourcing all the newly rewritten code. Mozilla was the organizational vehicle for doing that.
Netscape eventually got a Mozilla-based browser out the door, Netscape 6. And then AOL bought them and produced their enshittified version, Netscape 7. But neither one really caught on; no Mozilla-based browser ever would, until Firefox.
@allenstenhaus @linuxfiend Side note: Joel Spolsky, one of the founders of Stack Overflow, got his first real pop of public attention in 2000 by writing a blog post predicting the Netscape rewrite would be a disaster. It still gets circulated as a classic example of a highly influential post.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/