I guess I just don't get what the excitement's all about. Third, the only people who are going to bother with the source code are UNIX users, hardly the largest contingent out there. Make it so. Releasing the source is an action that will produce undeniable benefits to Netscape. In the first weeks after the source was released, programmers submitted hundreds of bug-fixes and enhancements.
Navigator is available for a lot of platforms.
Netscape's licenses allow that. Although the company has placed so many rules, riders, and exceptions to those licences that a lot of programmers have decided that this gift horse is better left back in the barn. Then read the FAQs that explain them. Then read the FAQs that explain the FAQs. The company feels that this is important to ensure long term viability of the source development effort.