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| ==What is Mozilla?==
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| '''Mozilla''' is both the name of an ''Internet software program'' and the name of the ''organization'' that makes it.
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| The software program is formally known as the Mozilla Application Suite, or simply the {{Mozilla Suite}}. It includes a Web browser, an e-mail client, and more.
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| [http://www.mozilla.org/about/ Mozilla the organization] was founded in 1998 to create the Mozilla Suite. It later produced other software products, including: | |
| * {{Firefox}}, a Web browser;
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| * {{Thunderbird}}, an e-mail client;
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| * Other sub-projects and spinoffs of the Mozilla Application suite such as the ChatZilla IRC client;
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| * Web tools that aid the application development such as [http://bugzilla.org/ Bugzilla].
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| (For details about Mozilla products, refer to the [[Summary of Mozilla products|summary page]].) In 2003 the organization was registered as a not-for-profit organization, and became the [http://www.mozilla.org Mozilla Foundation]. In 2005 a wholly-owned taxable subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation called [http://www.mozilla.com Mozilla Corporation] was created to focus on delivering Firefox and Thunderbird to end users. It also oversees marketing and sponsorships of the Mozilla products.
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| ==Mozilla and Netscape==
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| Mozilla and Netscape have had an interesting relationship. Netscape was the company that created the open-source Mozilla project by contributing pre-5.0 Netscape beta code. This code was eventually abandoned in favor of a ground-up rewrite of the browser, from which future Netscape releases were made. Although it came too late to help Netscape in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars Browser wars], beta versions of the Mozilla Suite formed the basis for Netscape 6.x versions, and the [http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html version 1.0] release of Mozilla was combined with proprietary components such as AIM and Netscape Radio to create Netscape 7.
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Summary of Mozilla products]]
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| * [[Product comparison matrix]]
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://mozilla.org/about/ About Mozilla]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla in Wikipedia]
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| [[Category:Introduction]]
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