slpu9945/Getty ImagesWhen the Netscape browser suite source code was open-sourced in 1998, it was a desperate move. Although Netscape and the Department of Justice had been successful in the courts at battling Microsoft's Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) illegal monopoly, it didn't matter. Netscape, once the most popular web browser of all, was doomed. As for the code, as Jamie Zawinski, an early Netscape employee, pointed out, "You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie ...