When Free Meets Proprietary: Three Free Applications on Proprietary Systems, Three Proprietary Applications on Free Systems

Overview

This paper will list a few situations where free software and proprietary software can mix, and give three examples of each. The Mozilla suite includes a Web browser, chat client, newsgroup reader, POP/IMAP client, HTML composer, and the Jabberzilla multi-protocol IM client. Firefox is a child of the Mozilla project which also produced its bigger brother the Mozilla suite.