In the mid-1990s, the question of w

In the mid-1990s, the question of whether the Web would be open source or closed code was effectively decided by the votes of companies and individuals who chose Apache or competing Web servers; Netscape, Mosaic, or competing Web browsers; by the tools and standards that were supported and by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). If server administrators had supported Netscape or Microsoft p extensions (as some did), and if browser users had been content to load different browsers to get to those sites, the could have become proprietary. The direction that was taken was open, and this was effectively sealed in 1998 when IBM announced support for the Apache Web server, and the Mozilla (formerly Netscape) browser was open sourced.